25/10/2026
In some good news, this autumn's special art exhibition, 🌟'Shining Lights of the North'🌟 by Simon Crawford, has been extended. You now have until Sunday 29 November to visit.
The Shining Lights of the North Way is a walking route that connects the Cistercian abbeys of Rievaulx, Byland and Fountains, following in the footsteps of the monks who once travelled between these significant religious sites.
The works in this post all show Simon's differing interpretations of Byland.
Over the last 12 months, Knaresborough-based artist, Simon Crawford, made his own ‘artistic pilgrimage’, sketching and painting each of the abbeys through the seasons. Inspired not only by the abbeys themselves, Simon revisited the same scenes captured by artists such as JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman and Thomas Girtin.
Free to visit - it is not in the paid area of the museum.
