Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle selected to compliment the colours

selected to compliment the colours used in the painting

the sea remained wild and restless

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

When there is a winter covering of snow

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

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle selected to compliment the coloursThis 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