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Derek recommends Stainton's Kings Arms and Brantwood hotel for food and drink. There is also an excellent farm shop and café at Greystone House and the nearby Alcapa Centre is well worth a visit. Both Dalemain and Rheged are just a mile away."
3 miles west of Penrith, off the A592 towards Ullswater. Take the second turning for Stainton, and at the cross roads turn right. Brooklyn House open studio is 100 yards down on the right.
Late night opening:
Saturday 10 September
Saturday 17 September
Studio Facilities:
Parking
Toilet
Brooklyn House, Stainton, Penrith, CA11 0EP
Tel: 01768 840943
Email: derek@brooklyn16.wanadoo.co.uk
Derek Eland is an exciting landscape painter and the current winner of the Upfront Cumbrian Open Exhibition.
He works mostly in a combination of acrylic and ink and his paintings highlight the patterns seen in the fields, fells, roads and rivers of the local landscape, using strong dark lines and slabs of colour. It is this boldness of line and colour which help define his work as contemporary and Derek wants to create reaction to his work: both positive and occasionally negative.
His work will be featured in this years Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times watercolour exhibition at London's Mall Galleries.