Drawing on Cumbria at Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
30th May to 31st July 2023
Drawing on Cumbria is an exhibition of sketchbooks and works by Cumbrian artist David Boyd.
Together, they highlight David’s personal exploration and interpretation of the local landscape and its many familiar elements — from mountain landscapes and lakes to dog walkers, café dwellers and busy car parks. David’s creative process is rooted in drawing, sketching and painting en plein air in the Cumbrian landscape. Through this, David makes direct and authentic observations of the local environment and records these ideas both on canvas and within the pages of his many sketchbooks. While the intention of this exhibition is to document David’s unique view of Cumbria, it is also intended to inspire and encourage individuals to find their own personal perspectives of their local landscape – to not only draw on Cumbria for their own inspiration, but to discover the nature of drawing for themselves too.
Ether Knott and Caffell Side, Watendlath 2, December 2021
110cm x 78cm
Langdale 6 38cm x 20cm
Buttermere February 2023 38cm x 28cm
Coniston 3 32cm x 29cm
A view from Buttermere. February 2023
51cm x 41cm
Buttermere Fells 1 February 2023 38cm x 28cm
Ullswater-27 48cmx40cm
Ullswater, The Lake District. January 2023 34cm x 30cm
Looking across Lake Ullswater. February 2023 51cm x 41cm
Borrowdale from Bowderstone carpark 84cmx30cm
David Boyd in Borrowdale 2022
Newlands 4 38cmx28cm
Barrow and Rowling End above Newlands Valley 91cmx65cm
Newlands Pass 1 51cm x 29cm
Watendlath 1 57cm x 75cm
St Johns in the Vale 1 38cm x 28cm
Ullswater 2 70cm x 30cm
Newlands 3 28cm x 19cm
Newlands 1 51cm x 41cm