A Little Window into the Wilderness
““Your painting makes this corner of my shabby front room look smart! Our window looks out onto the street. I’m a city dweller and rarely get to the countryside. Your painting is so restful but also stimulating! I love it.””
When I read this message, I had to stop for a moment. I spend so much time caught up in the making - the colours, the marks, the moods of the moors, that I sometimes forget what happens when a painting leaves my studio and finds a home of its own.
This one found its way to someone in the city. Someone who doesn’t often get to the wild places that inspired it. And suddenly, through their eyes, I saw my work differently.
It wasn’t just a landscape painting anymore, it had become a little window into the wilderness. A glimpse of space and stillness in the middle of everyday life.
That’s the part that moves me most - that something I made in a quiet studio on the edge of Sheffield could bring the feeling of wind, light, and open moorland into someone else’s world.
It reminded me why I paint. Not to capture a view, but to share a feeling - that sense of freedom and belonging you get when you stand on the hills and breathe it all in.
Maybe we all need a small reminder of the wild now and then.
If you’d like to bring your own “window into the wilderness” home, you can browse my available prints and paintings here.
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*Thank you to Jane for the lovely review and photos of her beautiful home
