.......but not for everyone!
This is the latest in my series - 'Every Painting tells Story'. But you will have to patient to find out what the lovely little tale is. I hope that has whetted your curiosity a bit but first - every Yorkshireman (and Yorkshirewoman too I must add!) knows that we are fortunate to live in the most beautiful place on the planet. And now, what we have always known is becoming accepted by everybody else with the possible exception of anyone born in Lancashire! If you don't believe me please follow this link to a news item from the BBC no less. Go on have a look.
The Yorkshire Dales is of course in Yorkshire and has been a source of inspiration for artists from all over the world for many years. I have been privileged to follow in their footsteps many times. I love the Dales particularly the high fells to the north. The old saying is - "If you can't see the hills - it's raining and if you can see the hills - it's going to rain!" or in Yorkshire - "If tha can't see t'ills - it's chuckin' it darn an' if tha can see t'ills - it's barna chuck it darn!" (spellchecker has blown a fuse!). We had been walking near Kettlewell and on this particular day, it certainly did 'chuck it darn'. We sheltered under some welcome trees until the heavy shower passed over. It was dark under the canopy but the light reflected in the puddles illuminated the gloom and when the sun eventually did break through, the road was bathed in a dazzling glow. I did make a very quick sketch but the painting was done in my nice dry studio at home. Are you ready for the little tale now. Well at that time I had a little studio/gallery in Easingwold. This painting was exhibited for some weeks and a young lady visited it several times. We got talking and she said she loved it but couldn't afford it. Anyway a few weeks later I was closing down the gallery to move to the East Coast and bigger things. On the last day before I closed I was packing and getting things ready for the move. The lady came in. She had heard I was moving and was visiting to see the painting for one last time. She explained that she had been through a very traumatic divorce. Things had been very hard for her cope with. She was in a dark place as they say. "But" she said" when I look at this painting it always makes me feel better and that there is light at the end of the tunnel." Oh what could I do? The same as you would have done of course- I told her it was her lucky day and offered a knock down price to cover the framing costs. After lots of protestations she eventually accepted my offer and it was quite moving to see how happy this painting had made her feel. The real reward of art - to create an emotional response in the viewer. I'm glad the painting inspired her and hope she did eventually reach her light at the end of the tunnel. And the moral of the story - one man's rainy day is one lady's hope after despair.
The Yorkshire Dales is of course in Yorkshire and has been a source of inspiration for artists from all over the world for many years. I have been privileged to follow in their footsteps many times. I love the Dales particularly the high fells to the north. The old saying is - "If you can't see the hills - it's raining and if you can see the hills - it's going to rain!" or in Yorkshire - "If tha can't see t'ills - it's chuckin' it darn an' if tha can see t'ills - it's barna chuck it darn!" (spellchecker has blown a fuse!). We had been walking near Kettlewell and on this particular day, it certainly did 'chuck it darn'. We sheltered under some welcome trees until the heavy shower passed over. It was dark under the canopy but the light reflected in the puddles illuminated the gloom and when the sun eventually did break through, the road was bathed in a dazzling glow. I did make a very quick sketch but the painting was done in my nice dry studio at home. Are you ready for the little tale now. Well at that time I had a little studio/gallery in Easingwold. This painting was exhibited for some weeks and a young lady visited it several times. We got talking and she said she loved it but couldn't afford it. Anyway a few weeks later I was closing down the gallery to move to the East Coast and bigger things. On the last day before I closed I was packing and getting things ready for the move. The lady came in. She had heard I was moving and was visiting to see the painting for one last time. She explained that she had been through a very traumatic divorce. Things had been very hard for her cope with. She was in a dark place as they say. "But" she said" when I look at this painting it always makes me feel better and that there is light at the end of the tunnel." Oh what could I do? The same as you would have done of course- I told her it was her lucky day and offered a knock down price to cover the framing costs. After lots of protestations she eventually accepted my offer and it was quite moving to see how happy this painting had made her feel. The real reward of art - to create an emotional response in the viewer. I'm glad the painting inspired her and hope she did eventually reach her light at the end of the tunnel. And the moral of the story - one man's rainy day is one lady's hope after despair.
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