Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle the view opens out in

the view opens out in a magnificent panorama

This large painting has real presence and will be a talking point in any room

sky and sand meet is one of life's great pleasures

They can trap fish between backward facing spines in their top bill and hold them in place with their spiny tongues

the sea remained wild and restless

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle the view opens out inThis painting is one of my "dreamscape" series painted during lockdown, when I wasn't able to visit the Northumberland coast. Starved of visiting my favourite places, they began to take on an almost mythic quality in my imagination. This prompted me to work using the paint in a more experimental, abstract way, working from memory rather than my more customary techiniques. The results are almost dreamlike less realistic than my regular works but full