Northern Lights Gallery

16/10/2026

14/10/2026

Okay, it’s October and it’s far too warm for any snow to be falling (country to the piece of music selected), however outside the Gallery this evening they are attaching the Christmas lights cable

12/10/2026

Can you believe it, another Painting that you can’t buy from the Gallery, so very , very sorry!
Pat Haskey kindly sent the Gallery a photograph of a most impressive 5‘ x 4‘ Painting on linen, which she had recently finished and framed, I believe the day before I arrived, Monday
This image was shown it to a lovely couple who are looking for some impressive sizable artwork for the new Keswick home and so yours truly trundled off to see Patricia
Their new painting never came into the Gallery, it did not pass through the front door, nor did it cost £200!
We met at the new property well after sunset, and with no electricity yet available, two of us moved this Patricia Haskey painting , into the new property by head torch.
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11/10/2026

Come-on-in.
Dancing in the isles is to be encouraged.
How our gallery looked this Sunday morning.

10/10/2026

I don’t normally do this, show you a Painting you can’t purchase (!) but I thought it would be beneficial and prudent to show you the most recent Godfrey Tonks Painting which I collected on Tuesday 07:40 hrs, and which was purchased around 3 pm Tuesday afternoon.
I have yet to visit the Musée de l’ Orangerie, Paris, though as you might be aware, amongst other art treasures it contains are monumental water lily murals by Claude Monet.
Each mural is 2 m in height yet spans a length of 91 m, each, eight in total, over two oval, contiguous Gallery spaces
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This astonishing art installation is actually a war memorial, The donation was bequeathed in 1922 after a great deal of forceful argument by the ex-Prime Minister of France (1917-1920) who convinced Monet this was the right thing to do for his legacy and for the French people.
Claude Monet, if you are unaware, was struggling with cataracts at the time, he died in 1926, all-but blind. Indeed, if you look at his later paintings, as he gets older and his eyesight becomes more blurred, his paintings particularly of waterlilies, become softer, more diffused, more impressionistic.
I’ve seen three paintings by Godfrey Tonks that concern themselves with water lilies, this one reminds me very much of the later paintings in this museum.
Since I happened to be delivering another piece of artwork, near Cartmel, & so on the off chance, I thought it prudent to bring this new painting into the couple’s living room too.
Godfrey’s painting was a perfect fit not just for the space but also for the room, the decor and the lady of the house was bewitched, as am I.
This photograph was hastily taken in their living room, just so that at least we have a record for prosperity of what is a really rather stunning Tonks water lily Painting look like.

09/10/2026

Finally, I’ve managed to find a piece of music that builds in the same way that the brand-new delivery of stunning artwork by builds
Kevin constructs these three-dimensional sculptural multimedia paintings, and such a two dimensional photograph on your device does not do them any favours!
What was required was a piece of music that built on that which went before, inextricably building, moving always onwards in some Hegelian / Marxist momentum, forwards towards the next painting, the next moment, risking a possible crescendo, but knowing there was never to be a climax to the movement.
That is the conceit, the music perfectly matches each Painting, because each Painting is as good as the one that proceeded it, never greater than, never less than.
This leaves the viewer with a conundrum, which out of the six would best suit your own needs, desires, if each one, is equal to, equivalent to the one that went before, at that which came after?
This is why the piece of music is perfect, because each movement seemingly builds upon the previous, but in actual fact is equal to, reverential to, yet in harmony with its predecessor, & its successor.
The possible crescendo could be your purchase of one of these genuinely intriguing paintings - or better still, all six.

03/10/2026

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you”
Conversely, what happens when you drive by an evolving cloud inversion, and the landscape seems to be smiling at you?
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It’s a defining, professional, moral obligation, if in my head or out loud I say that something is “ quite interesting” I have no choice, I must pick up my camera & satisfy my curiosity, go take photographs, stare back, compose, focus, memorialise the QI moment.
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This is between Cockermouth and Keswick this morning, pretty much opposite Embleton, on the other side of the A66.

29/09/2026

Not long after I had become a gallery owner, than an existential question arose- namely, “ am I allowed to buy any of the artwork in the Gallery?”
This was prompted by a delivery back then, as now, from the hugely talented
I genuinely didn’t know the answer, there was a large yellow and blue vase, I didn’t need a large yellow and blue vase, and yet there it sat on the desk in front of me whispering things in my ear, things I had never witnessed before.
Not exactly an owed to aggression earn (don’t you just love dictation software - Edit - Keats’
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”’ ) more an incessant whispering about beauty, the power of art, ownership.
Shelley concludes that the urn will say to future generations of mankind: “’Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.’ – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”.
Fast forward from 2018, to 2026, and I am having the same conversation with myself.
Except, now I know that I am permitted to purchase artwork.
So, if you too are in any doubt, be confident - purchase, own, enjoy - for tomorrow Rowena’s ceramic Marvell’s may transform into an Ode on Melancholy.

28/09/2026

Do you recognise the view from this cairn?
Apologies to , this beautiful Painting arrived whilst I was away, and the previous photograph that I had wasn’t the best & so today I’m rectifying these two oversights.