Art Supplies on the Costa Del Sol

50 cm x 70 cm

acrylic on canvas

The River Ribble near Sawley Winter 

work in progress

This is the second painting in a new series on Sawley in Lancashire. The day was a beautiful one when I sketched and photographed the river at this bend; its where the Ribble meets the road to Bank Top and Grindleton. It was the kind of day when you can feel a presence, a quivering in the air almost like someone walking next to you, but when you turn to see them and smile there is no one there, Wordsworth would have have called this a beautiful day in gods creation and Turner would have bestowed on it a sublime majesty.  In the distant past the view would have been down river to the proud Abbey of Sawley but the powers that be at the time knocked it down two hundred  years ago; thus denying generations of locals the benefits of the beatitudes; and a wonderful place to be; I suppose I shouldn't continue to write the next paragraph but as its in my mind I may as well say it, the same thing is happening in British society today as the government knocks away the 2000 year old building blocks of this Christian land,  without any due care to the fragile spirit that feebly still binds us together with love and compassion, thus leaving the generations to come to blindly feel their way across the stony infertile ground of their souls, forgive them for in their haste to be the perfect administrators of their plan, they know not what they do.