Landscape Artist and Rambling Sketcher

As a solitary artist, I enjoy spending days immersed in the landscape just looking and drawing. I will often sit and watch the weather roll in, observing the moving light as it plays across the view in front of me, breathing in the smells and listening to the sounds of the landscape.

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Green Into Gold

£295.00

This plein air drawing of Digley Road through Green Wood leads towards the Digley embankment from Holmbridge.

It had rained the night before and the earthy scent of damp, fallen leaves seemed to reflect and resonate perfectly with the season. Autumn is one of those times of year when evocative scents are everywhere.

Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm

Watercolour and oil pastel on paper

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A Midwinter Ramble

£295.00

Shaw Lane heads towards the junction of Hoobram Green and Nether Lane. The copse of trees overlooks Marsden Clough above Bilberry reservoir.

I had to sketch this very quickly as the light was fading fast. Just as I was finishing, a lone walker came into view, bang in the middle of the lane; I had to put him in. The sun was setting in the west and I wanted to capture the reflected light in the melting snow on the lane. It froze again later and I had that satisfying sound of the ice crunching underfoot as I made my way back to the car park at Digley.

Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm

Acrylic Ink, watercolour and oil pastel on paper

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Latest Project - Autumn Into Winter

Inspired by the Impressionists, this return to Digley, is a celebration of familiar paths and moorlands and my observations of their transformation throughout the autumn and winter months.

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Watercolor landscape of blue terraced fields, rural houses, trees, and dramatic white clouds beneath a blue sky

Bearded man wearing a skull-patterned beanie and sunglasses, writing on a clipboard beside a moss-covered stone wall in the woods

YORKSHIRE’S RAMBLING ARTIST

About Fritz

My art focuses on the places I see as I wend through the high and wild places across the North of England, where peaceful country lanes and dark, dramatic moorlands exist side-by-side.

From the clear and sunny days of summer to the dark and overcast skies of winter; somewhere can feel familiar in one season, but totally alien in another.

I draw in the open air, quickly capturing these moments as they are fresh, employing a spontaneous, scratchy movement using ink and homemade tools such as sharpened lollipop sticks, matches and twigs.

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