The Moors in Winter - landscape drawing

North York Moors in winter as a spare, wind-scoured landscape, distilled to its essential rhythms 

The winter light feels cold and diffuse, as if filtered through thin cloud, flattening colour and emphasizing tone. Loose, scratched lines cut across the surface, evoking tussocky grasses, heather stems, and the restless movement of wind over exposed ground.

These marks feel almost calligraphic, conveying both fragility and resilience, as if the land is stripped back but still alive beneath winter’s restraint.

This emotional response to the Moors rather than a topographical record: quiet, austere, and expansive, with a sense of weather passing through and time slowed. It evokes the solitude and elemental character of the winter landscape—open, raw, and quietly powerful.

 Painted plein air 

Original Ink and watercolour on watercolour paper

Painting size:H24 x W32cm

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This painting is unframed. Price for framing painting available on request