This painting was commissioned by Culgaith Parish Council in association with Eden District Council (Millenium Fund) and is now hanging in St Lawrence Church, Kirkland.

Commissioned in 2002 by a family in Bangalore, this painting depicts an area at the foot of Cross Fell, looking back towards the village where I live and then beyond to the Eden Valley.

Jarrod appears in this painting a dozen times and is engaged in various farming activities. The building behind him is also ephemeral with the distant fellside showing through. . . as though we are looking back to a period before the building was erected in the 17th century. A bastle house is a semi-fortified construction built to protect it's occupants from the marauding Scots. Animals would be kept downstairs and this would make things warmer for people living upstairs.

Collection: Lakeland Arts, Cumbria

This large oil painting was made on my return to the UK from the Falkland Islands. 'Palenque' (Spanish: meaning 'arena' or 'palisade') is the name the Islanders have for the structure in the painting. Enormous Turkey Vultures, with their incredible sense of smell, are attracted to the curing carcass of beef from miles away . . . but are kept at bay by netting draped over the meat. In the foreground are sheep skins, also hung out to dry - see 'Running Fence'.

Clearing (ii)  - made between 2009 and 2015 in charcoal, acrylic and sand and belongs to an on-going group of drawings and paintings with the title 'Clearing'.