Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle Add to this the sight

Add to this the sight of swathes of bright bluebells with their heady perfume and you have the most wonderful sensory experience

barbecues and just generally watching the river meander by

the view opens out in a magnificent panorama

hunting for their favourite meal of small fish and sand eels

selected to compliment the colours used in the painting

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle Add to this the sightThis 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 techiniques. The results are almost dreamlike less realistic than my regular works but full