September 9, 2011
Yesterday I was in Lancashire attending the funeral of an old friend, and driving from the church to the cemetery passed the studio of landscape artist Keith Melling. I’ve admired his work for many years. For decades he has painted the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and his home turf, that beautiful area around Pendle [...]
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August 22, 2011
This afternoon a visit to Grasmere was rounded off well by a look around the 2011 Summer Exhibition of the Lake Artists Society in the village’s New Hall. The society was founded in 1904 as one of the many initiatives of the multi-talented artist and historian, W G Collingwood, who in his younger years served [...]
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