We visited Great Britain in the summer of 2012, and I was very inspired by these images of Gothic ruins. It is hard for me to draw architecture without getting too tight in my lines. There are also a few non-ruined pieces.

British Ruins I: Oystermouth Castle Chapel, The Mumbles, Wales  August 2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  28.5 x 26”   $2000 framed.

 

British Ruins IV: Tintern Abbey, Aisle View  August 2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  26 x 26.5”  $700 unframed.

 

British Ruins V: Whitby Abbey, Aisle View  August 2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  26.25 x 28”  $700 unframed.

 

British Ruins III: Tintern Abbey  August  2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  26 x 26”  cost: $25 price: $700 unframed.

 

 

British Ruins V: Whitby Abbey, Aisle View  August 2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  26.25 x 28”  $700 unframed.

Borrowdale from Castle Crag, Lake District  August  2012  pastel and pencil on Arches paper  34.5 x 44”  $1000.

This work was inspired by a hike with my cousin in the Lake District, one of my favorite places in Britain.  I find it interesting to compare that with a hike almost forty years earlier in Lydford Gorge.

Lydford Gorge Spring  September 1983  pastel and pencil on Arches paper 25” x 20” $400