From a farmhouse that nestles off the single road track that passes through a picturesque village in North Yorkshire, an artist couple have been using the natural world around them to influence their work for the last 50 years.
Relishing being off the beaten track, husband and wife painting duo Paul Blackwell and Anne Thornhill have used their rural, picturesque, idyllic and sometimes isolated surroundings to shape their work. They paint from a studio in the garden which looks out over Eskdale, a spectacular valley formed during the last ice age, which runs from the North York Moors towards the coastline of Whitby. In summer the view is bathed with wild flowers, grazing sheep and rolling green fields.
The open studio event is organised by the artist-run collective, North Yorkshire Open Studios is an artist-run collective that is a not-for-profit community which works to support the hundreds of painters, sculptors, print-makers, jewellers, ceramicists, photographers, and creatives who live and work in North Yorkshire. The long-running scheme is now in its 17th year, and this year it welcomes 30 new artists who are exhibiting for the first time.
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