Dunstanburgh Castle Limited Edition Print by Kate Lycett

,Painted in 2019 for ‘Catching the Light’, a solo exhibition at Chantry House Gallery. Walking from Craster to Dunstanburgh Castle, and then on for a very cold picnic on the sands at Embleton Bay, this the view back towards the castle from the picnic. The original media for this work is a combination of inks, gouache, acrylics and coloured pencil.

Kate Lycett, the artist, now lives in Hebden Bridge where she has her studio, Her textile design background is always present in the way that she paints and interprets what is around her. She sees patterns in everything; the hills adorned with houses and washing lines, rows of flower pots and stripes of brightly painted drain pipes. Lines of gold thread trace lines through the landscape, and gold leaf changes the surface of her pictures with the changing light of day. There are never people in her pictures but they’re full of life and warmth.