Category: landscape

  • And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there

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    [caption id="attachment_1348" align="alignnone" width="1000"] up on the windy ridge between Winder and Arant Haw, with glowering clouds[/caption] One night I decided, just as the light was disappearing, to hasten up the fell, 1,955 feet of steep climbing right up to the summit of Winder. A lung-opening, blood-stirring, bone-strengthening lunge of an effort, guaranteed to leave…

  • Paintings as premonitions

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    fellpainter
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    What makes some paintings into premonitions? Is there something in the human mind that can peer into a dim future and translate it into paint? [caption id="attachment_1336" align="alignnone" width="1000"] looking resolutely ahead; turning away from the void![/caption] Some shadowy rather scary things have been happening of late. The blog has been neglected while I tangled…