Hadrian’s Wall (Original Watercolour)

Description

The area around Housesteads Fort and Hadrians Walls is great for walking and sketching, and as well as the obvious historical references, it provides us with some very distinctive landscape and potential painting material. In fact, conveying the rolling gentleness of that landscape can be surprisingly tricky…

This is quite a unique area in terms of its topography, lying in the Northern reaches of Northumberland and South of Kielder Forest. What hills there are, are gentle and rolling, but nothing particularly high or dramatic. The sill upon which Hadrian’s wall is located does provide several moments of visual punctuation, though, coupled with a few steep crags and three notable ‘loughs’. A lack of very steep gradients makes walking quite easy, yet there remains good, extensive views in all directions.

The painting was produced as a part of a project for my online tuition service.

Click here to see a preview of how the whole project came together.

This painting is supplied unframed, and will be dispatched in protective packaging with rigid backing panel, ready to take to a framer.