Lake District Farmhouse

A distant farmhouse resident on a distant horizon, the warming smoke of an early evening billowing from the chimney breast to take the edge off the chill for the occupants within, whilst clouds roll in off the ranges and ridges naturally landscaped behind. A working farm, its outbuildings and livestock dotted in the middle-ground suggestive of sheep, which populate the rising and falling fells of Cumbria’s stunning Lake District vistas with startling regularity forms the visual nucleus of Duncan Palmar’s latest green and pleasant piece. The acclaimed landscape artist, more normally associated with seascapes and predominantly coastal panoramas, has pictorially manifested ‘Lake District Farmhouse’ seen here, a rich and deeply textured study that paints a familiar and comforting rural scene, indicative of this beautiful corner of England, noted and celebrated for its dramatic and evocative mountain ranges and picture perfect, great swathes of water.