espiritoart
Profile
I started painting when I was 6 – and I have been doing it ever since…... I grew up in Accrington, North-East Lancashire, U.K. in the austere years of the 50’s and early 60’s – a landscape of slate-roofed stone terraces and cotton mills in near-terminal decline. As a child I played in the upland meadows and the ‘Wuthering Heights’- like moors;
from my earliest days developing a deep love of Nature.
The first real paintings I got to know were in the Whitworth and Walker galleries – by the great Victorian artists with their brilliant skills. My school studies soon brought me to my life-long favourites, William Blake and the modern movements of Dada and Surrealism.
Recently, my subject matter increasingly has been concerned with the landscapes of my adoptive county of Cumbria – as you will see later.
giclée prints of my work are available on www.espiritoart.com
Groups
espiritoart is a member of "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 3 works total, "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, Abstract Realism, Acrylic Painting, All About Water, All About Your Best Work, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, Art North West, Country Bumpkin, Fine Art approaches to Figure and Face, Forests, Iron Horses Old and New, Masterpiece: Art, North East England, Powered by Steam, Railway Art and Photography, Rivers and Streams, Symbolism in Art, The Scots are Coming, This is England, Trains and United Kingdom.
