A solo exhibition of oil paintings by Alan Stones at the Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SX 

Thursday 12th June - Wed. 30th July 2025         open daily from 9.00am

Since 1982 I have been living and working in Blencarn, a hamlet in the Eden Valley at the foot of Crossfell, the highest point on the Pennines. I walk through the surrounding landscape each day and I know it intimately.

This body of paintings is a response to this wonderful landscape and to one of my walks in particular. My return walk to the gate takes about 50 minutes. In less than an hour I can be back at work. It's a little over three miles and takes me from my studio through the most glorious undulating countryside of woodland and fields of grazing sheep up to the gate above the village of Kirkland. At the gate I usually turn back to the studio but beyond the gate the landscape opens out and it becomes much wilder and, for me, it's where wilderness begins.

My paintings are put together in the studio, away from the subject. Each is reflected on over time and is built up layer upon layer. We know things only by their differences and, as much as I can, I want to introduce opposing elements . . . to play off one thing against another.

 

All the paintings (below) are available for sale from Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere LA22 9SX until July 30th 2025                         Tel. 015394 35280    

'Above Kirkland'             £4550

'Kirkhill'                           £3200

'Below the Gate' (i)         £4550   

'Below the Gate' (ii)        £4550

'Below the Gate' (iii)       £4550

'To the Limekiln'           £10,000

'Wildboar Nook'              £1200

'To the Gate' (January)   £5500

'To the Gate' (June)        £1200

'To the Gate'                 £14,000

'Skirwith Beck' (i)            £1200

'Skirwith Beck' (ii)           £3100