We took a week in the southern Lake District near Grange-over-Sands and got lucky with the weather.
We had trips to the RSPB site at Leighton Moss and Kendal, on the other days we walked clocking up 30 miles. Although the walking was fine, the ground was well saturated and there was plenty of mud to contend with. A highlight in Kendal (besides Farrers tea room https://www.farrers.co.uk) was the Quaker Tapestry Museum – this is a work comprising 77 tapestry panels made by 4000 people between 1981 and 1996 and tell the story of the quakers thematically. Take a look, https://www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/about/the-tapestry-panels/, and if you get the chance do go and visit, the photographs don’t capture the full spectacle.
On only one day did we have prolonged torrential rain and that afforded me the luxury of setting up in the bay window to complete a mixed media study using a sketch from the previous days walk.
Cartmel from Hampsfell
This is 16 x12 mixed watercolour media (watercolour, wax crayon, inks, pastel) on rough paper.
Here are a couple of sketchbook extracts
