Image size 95cm x 145cm (framed size 115cm x 165cm)
Watercolour on Paper
£6,500

I could hardly do a series of paintings based on the landscape of Great Britain without an image of my home county, Northumberland. There were several options as we have a fantastic coast line and many castles, The cheviots, The Tyne. However I chose Hadrians Wall built on the  Whin Sill; a ridge of volcanic rock that stretches from Teesdale through Northumbria and northwards to Berwick.

There can be few more impressive Roman sires than this, the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.  As you enter Tynedale from the west this rock looks like a huge breaking wave that stretches for ten miles or more, hundreds of feet high, threatening to smash its way northwards towards the Scottish border.

It is plain to see why the Romans chose this as their natural northern border. This is a wild and rugged landscape with a perpetual breeze in summer and gale in winter it must have been a tough existence for the Roman soldier. It is an inspirational landscape and one that I am pleased to have conquered through the Uber technique.  I kept to an uncomplicated palette for this painting, and is constructed in just three washes as I felt the contours of the landscape were complex enough to carry this level of simplicity.

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