A Cloudy Day on Windermere by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929)

A Cloudy Day on Windermere by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929)The viewpoint from Skelghyll and Jenkins Crag (previously known as Jenkyns) looking down Windermere Lake was a favourite viewpoint for Alfred when he lived in Ambleside in the 1920's. Today, it can still be reached by anyone, and from here the panorama opens out as far down the lake as Belle Isle and Bowness. The tarn on the hillside opposite is Blelham Tarn and to the left of that is the cairned fell of Latterbarrow, and left again the woods of

From his time spent out on the fells

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charcoal and pastel

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when the oil lamps have been lit indoors yet there's still some light in the sky

Red: Fire - symbolizes good fortune and joy

casting resin and liquid pigment is made

After 25 years of extremely hard work

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but that it destroyed the shifts in distance when viewing a mountainous landscape

Clear skies reveal the fells as they cascade into the background