Alnwick Castle, Northumberland – Limited Edition Print

£36.00

The Northumbrian town of Alnwick boasts a magnificent castle as well as stunning gardens. I’ve had the privilege of painting both.

In 2003 I was commissioned to paint over a dozen Northumbrian Castles in watercolour for a leading North East company to grace the walls of their boardrooms and Alnwick Castle was one of them.

I had already decided that I would spread the paintings out over the course of a whole year so that I was capturing all of the seasons. After working out when the sun was most likely to be catching the ancient architecture, I felt that the last light of a summer evening was going to best for this particular scene.

It was painted on an expensive hand made watercolour paper, heavily textured, which was ideal for rendering both the stone and the foreground grasses. It also allowed me to make quite large, free brush strokes to indicate the low lying clouds reflected in the slow moving River Aln.

The painting that was commissioned worked well for the client and I was so pleased with the result that I decided to do a slightly different interpratation of the same view which I later reproduced as this limited edition print. The original watercolour can be seen at my Studio & Gallery in Ponteland.

Available in larger sizes as giclee prints. Please contact or telephone +44 (0) 1661 871 800 to order.

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Dimensions 31 × 22 cm
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Alnwick Castle

The Northumbrian town of Alnwick boasts a magnificent castle as well as stunning gardens. I’ve had the privilege of painting both.

In 2003 I was commissioned to paint over a dozen Northumbrian Castles in watercolour . This special commission was for a leading North East company. These spectacular paintings graced the walls of their boardrooms.  Alnwick Castle of course was one of them.

I had already decided that I would spread the paintings out over the course of a whole year. This enabled me to capture all of the seasons. After working out when the sun was most likely to be catching the ancient architecture, I felt that the last light of a summer evening was going to best for this particular scene.

It was painted on an expensive hand made watercolour paper, heavily textured. This special paper was ideal for rendering both the stone and the foreground grasses. It also allowed me to make quite large, free brush strokes to indicate the low lying clouds reflected in the slow moving River Aln.

The painting that was commissioned worked well for the client and I was so pleased with the result that I decided to do a slightly different interpratation of the same view which I later reproduced as this limited edition print. The original watercolour can be seen at my Studio & Gallery in Ponteland.

Alnwick Castle as a Film Location

Alnwick Castle Northumberland most recently featured in Transformers: The Last Knight, and as the magnificent Brancaster Castle in Downton Abbey’s 2015 and 2016 Christmas specials. Having already featured as Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films, as well as appearing in Elizabeth and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, among others, the castle is no stranger to film crews!

 

Available in larger sizes as giclee prints. Please contact or telephone +44 (0) 1661 871 800 to order.