Louise's Art Work

Hanging on the bedroom wall of "Buzzard" are 2 prints by Louise a neighbour and artist. She sells her beautiful cards in the tearooms a short walk from the cottage.

Here are some of her other paintings......the first is the drive to Roeburnscar Cottage

The Old Lady

The Old Lady has gone: she's been leaning towards 45 degrees for many years but the last big gale a few weeks ago brought her down. She is now lying across the river and no-one heard her fall. What a graceful Lady! Here she is  viewed  from the verandah of the house before her descent:

Here is a view of the empty space  where she used to stand
looking from the verandah of the house.

Here is the Old Lady to the left lying  across the river on one beautiful sunny day in February.













Looking towards the house from the lovely snowdrop walk which Rod's father planted many years ago:  now it really feels like spring is here.

Freya Horsley's Painting

Perhaps not the best result from my attempts  to show Freya Horsley's painting "Loss" hanging in the flat sitting room but the sunlight coming in through the windows is scarce . This painting was displayed at a wonderful gallery in Helmsley called Saltbox well worth a visit if you are in North Yorkshire.

Artwork

A friend Nick Andrews has replaced the dated bed heads, in the new extension "Buzzard" , with these beautiful pieces of matching sycamore from our own timber. Also replaced are those in the "Owl" bedroom see below:

 The bedroom "Owl" above has 2 windows : one looks out to the orchard and stables and the other looks onto the porch between the flat and house. Before the flat was built to provide living accommodation for the young couple looking after Rod's mother it looked out to the garden. We thought the porch wall looked boring until Eller was inspired to paint arches and flowers inspired by
 Larch Cottage Nurseries near Penrith.

Rainbow over Windmill

A view towards Barbon Fells facing Northeast with the Backsbottom Farm windmill just visible. This view can be seen by walking from Roeburnscar , through the garden, up the valley, right over the Roeburn at the footbridge, up the farm track to the farm buildings and onto the tarmac road which is Roeburndale West road. The walk is a round trip if you head back right onto the tarmac to Wray and the cottage. Other than the tarmac, all the walk is on the farm.

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Thomas Edison (1931)

Eva's Painting

Eva Ullrich , a young friend of ours, recently won the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporary Artist of the Year award. We love her beautiful, acrylic abstracts and  we were lucky to purchase one of her paintings which is above the fireplace in the main house. Eva says that it was inspired by the Roeburn and intriguing pools near the house.

River Swimming

 Welcome to Fiona and her family during their weekend visit in September. We were so pleased that they were our first paying guests after many months of extended work. Thanks to Fiona for giving us permission to publish some of her photos which were taken on a rare weekend when the sun shone . Some young members of the family ventured into the river and it looked like they were having a lot of fun. Is this really Lancashire ? Is this a newly discovered tribe in deepest, darkest Roeburndale?