Bamburgh Blue Green Dreamscape - Original Painting remembrance They do not need to

They do not need to bring their catch back to land

They were inspired by the goldfinches that come to my birdfeeder in search of their favourite snack of niger seed

looking up the coast to the abandonded lime kilns next to the small harbour

The original Roman -Egyptian mummy portrait is thought to have originated in er-Rubayat in Egypt

Bamburgh Blue Green Dreamscape - Original Painting remembrance They do not need toThis painting is one of my "dreamscape" series painted during lockdown, when I wasn't able to visit the Northumberland coast. Starved of visiting my favourite places, they began to take on an almost mythic quality in my imagination. This prompted me to work using the paint in a more experimental, abstract way, working from memory rather than my more customary techniques. The results are almost dreamlike less realistic than my regular paintings but