Park Yeat Cottages, Coniston 1900 by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) Art Materials - Pastel Sheets as not everyone who climbs

as not everyone who climbs Everest survives

hence the Lake District connection

written by W

this is a marvellous example of using both wet and dry watercolour brush together in order to depict all of the water-reeds

free from yellowing and from any weakening or embrittlement

Park Yeat Cottages, Coniston 1900 by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) Art Materials - Pastel Sheets as not everyone who climbsAlfred painted a series of archetypal and picturesque Lakeland old farm cottages in 1900, where he was no doubt inspired from living nearby in his own family home at Coniston during the same period. In this studied painting he chooses to offer a highly unusual angle looking side on at the charming whitewashed buildings note the caged budgerigar hanging in the doorway. "Outwardly this was charming, especially with its trees that overhung the mossy