Northern Moods Drawings by Rob Miller RSA



Grane Haslingden Flags Quarry track
Mixed media and collage
26cmx18cm







Milltown Winter Morning Bolton
mixed media on paper
26cmx18cm



Pit shaft 2
Blackburn Road
Chaters Moss
26cmx18cm

 Pit shaft 2
Bl;ackburn Road
Charters Moss
26cmx18cm

Following on from the success of the pieces that are at the Shireburn Hotel in Mellor I'm working on a continued series based on the title .Northern Moods.' The series of drawings are starting to take on new directions  Merging  traditional low tech art applications like drawing, painting and collage with new digital image making. Its a bit like Im engaged in the same post industrial process as the subject matter merging old and new techniques. I'm finding the series really interesting to do nature versus mankind on a local level. Which is a simplified look at the abandoned old industrial sites in out of city settings; workings such as coal mines pit shafts , quarries, butteries, tramways now overgrown and deserted but once a site of great activity.