Outbound Skip

Oil painting of an early spring morning on Moor Lane Lancaster. Clouds in the sky, damp on the cobbles, sun cutting shadows. A skip lorry heads up the hill. People pass the Golden Lion on their way to work. The Aston Memorial sits proudly above.
Oil painting of an early spring morning on Moor Lane Lancaster. Clouds in the sky, damp on the cobbles, sun cutting shadows. A skip lorry heads up the hill. People pass the Golden Lion on their way to work. The Aston Memorial sits proudly above.

Outbound Skip

Moor Lane Lancaster

Oil on canvas

65 × 114 × 5 cm

£2,300

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Close up detail from Outbound Skip showing sharpe contrast between light and shadow on the road edge. Layered, textured oil paint with palette knife work.
Close up detail of the street lamp. Weathered and dirty some cloud in the background can still be seen through the glass of the lamp.

Palette knife work, shifting light and fragments of an early spring morning on Moor Lane Lancaster.

A skip lorry winds its way up and out as people head to work past the Golden Lion. Maybe for some the night before was spent here?

Moisture still gathers on the cobblestones from rain the night before, though the early spring sun is beginning to warm. That moment between breakfast and the start of the weekly day.

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