Painting of Bolton Abbey Wharfedale Yorkshire by Rob Miller RSA

Bolton Abbey Wharfedale
Acrylic on canvas
40x30
painters studio snapshot not for printing
copy write Rob miller

Morning mists rising from the River shroud the fells and a weak late spring sun. Michael Faraday was one of my early inspirational people, as an illustrator of architecture he viewed similar scenes to this as part of his illustrated journeys of  Britain. When I sketched this scene I was much taken with the thought of seeing him perched in a rock in silk stockings breeches and waistcoat, somewhat less tramp like than I was when I started