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Based in the Yorkshire Dales, Penny’s studio gives windswept views of mountains, moorlands and mist; her work is about that landscape of freedom, the places where you feel the full force of wind and weather and find some perspective on life. Landscapes actually made from the land that has been walked, pigments ground from stones, or twigs made into charcoal and ground into paints. Each painting holds some of the landscape in the materials used. Wild spaces, where the wind blows your problems away, whether sea or land are the places that inspire these paintings. Penny works in oil and cold wax, with the added element of natural pigments. 

 

Being drawn to the sea she paints regularly from the coast, preferring rocky coastlines and rougher seas where she can spend hours watching the water move over and between obstacles. By painting directly on the shoreline seaweed, sand and spray are windblown into the work creating texture and atmosphere. Layers are later built up back in the studio, worked from memories and sketches, never photographs which remove the immediacy of the feel of the place, atmosphere not detail. 

 

Her Fine Art degree, MA and many years teaching helped develop her paintings and printmaking, each material feeds back into the other, the layering, overprinting and intaglio techniques are present in all.

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Penny is also co-founder of Craven Wildlife Rescue, working with nature is at the heart of everything she does, believing in sustainability, rehabilitation and conservation.

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