Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle When there is a winter

When there is a winter covering of snow

hunting for their favourite meal of small fish and sand eels

They can trap fish between backward facing spines in their top bill and hold them in place with their spiny tongues

sky and sand meet is one of life's great pleasures

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle When there is a winterThis 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