Abandoned Farmhouse at Curf Fen Drove, Chatteris The abandoned farmhouse at Curf Fen Drove is one of many such buildings scattered across the Cambridgeshire Fenlands — structures that were once the centres of working farms, now empty and slowly returning to the landscape. The process of abandonment is gradual: first the windows go, then the roof, then the walls begin to subside into the soft peat beneath. The building becomes, over time, a ruin, and then a mound, and then not

The Ouse Washes in Flood ‘The Ouse Washes are part of a flood defense system. They are an uninhabited area of nearly six thousand acres...

The House at Southery Southery is a village in the Norfolk Fens, situated on slightly higher ground above the surrounding fields. The house in this photograph is typical of the vernacular architecture of the region: brick-built, functional, and set in a landscape that offers little shelter from the wind and the weather. It is a building that has been shaped by its environment — by the flatness of the terrain, the exposure of the site, and the particular quality of the Fenland

This is an archetypal Fenland landscape, just near Gold Hill, close to the Old Bedford River. There are no physical hills in the Fenlands...

The Fenland landscape belongs to Winter. In football terms, Summer relegates the Fenlands to the third division or possibly a non-league...

Ely Cathedral — A Gothic Presence in the Fenland Landscape Ely Cathedral is one of the great buildings of England — a Gothic structure of extraordinary scale and ambition, set in a landscape that seems almost too flat and open to contain it. The Cathedral was built on an island of slightly higher ground in what was, before the draining of the Fens, a vast expanse of water and marsh. It was, in a very literal sense, a building that rose from the water, and this origin is still

In the Fenland landscape, the telegraph pole is the dominant vertical. There are no hills, no church spires visible from a distance, no trees tall enough to punctuate the horizon with any authority. The telegraph pole does all of this work alone — a slender, utilitarian object that becomes, in the context of the flat open landscape, something close to monumental. I have photographed and painted telegraph poles many times. They appear in the Fenland series repeatedly, not as s

Fenland Farm Buildings at Hale Fen — Landscape Photography The farm buildings of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands occupy a particular place in the visual character of this landscape. Isolated, functional, and often in various states of repair, they punctuate the flat terrain with a directness that is entirely in keeping with the utilitarian spirit of the Fens. At Hale Fen, this quality is especially pronounced: the buildings sit low against the sky, their forms simplified by dista

This is a large oil painting on a 122cm x 92cm professional quality canvas. It is semi abstract and expressionistic in terms of technique...

'Submarine' — Painting the Submerged Fenland Landscape The title of this painting refers to the geological and historical reality of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands: a landscape that was, for most of its history, submerged beneath water. The Fens were drained over several centuries, beginning in earnest in the seventeenth century, and the land that was reclaimed from the sea and the marsh has been in a state of slow subsidence ever since. Much of the Fenland is now below sea leve

Somersham Fen 40 x 40 x 4 cm This painting based on Somersham Fen has been created using oil and cold wax medium on a canvas stretcher....

‘The Three Realms’ by Peter Corr ‘The Three Realms’ by Peter Corr For me, a title is an important element in the creation of a painting....

'After the Rain' — Fenland Landscape in Oil and Cold Wax Rain transforms the Fenland landscape in ways that are difficult to anticipate and impossible to fully describe. The light changes — becomes softer, more diffuse, the sky heavier and more present. The fields, already low and flat, seem to sink further into the earth. Water appears in the dykes and drains with a new urgency, and the whole landscape takes on a quality of saturation that is both visual and atmospheric. The

‘Residual Cross’ 60 x 60 cm This is one of a new series of paintings continuing and extending my interest in less conventional art...

‘The Kingdom of Mercia’ 80 x 80 cm by Peter Corr This painting is currently on show at The Old Fire Engine House in Ely, Cambridgshire,...

'River City' — Mixed Media on Canvas 'River City' is a painting that responds to the experience of a city seen from the water — the particular perspective that a river offers on the urban landscape, with its combination of the ancient and the modern, the monumental and the domestic. The title is deliberately ambiguous: it could refer to any number of cities built on rivers, and this ambiguity is part of the painting's intention. Mixed Media and Urban Landscape The painting wa

‘Cradle’ 122 x 92 cm This is a large mixed media painting on a 122cm x 92cm professional quality canvas. It was produced from studies...

'The River Great Ouse' — Mixed Media Landscape The River Great Ouse is one of the defining features of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands — a slow, wide river that winds through the flat landscape, its banks lined with willows and reeds, its surface reflecting the enormous sky above. It is a river that has shaped the landscape around it over centuries, and that continues to define the character of the towns and villages along its course. The Painting This mixed media landscape was m

'Gilded Shore' — Oil, Bitumen and Cold Wax on Canvas 'Gilded Shore' brings together three materials — oil paint, bitumen, and cold wax medium — in a painting that explores the edge between land and water. The shore is a threshold: a place of meeting and separation, where the solid and the fluid are in constant negotiation. The title's reference to gold suggests both the quality of light at certain times of day and the sense of value that attaches to these marginal, transition

If you are visiting Ely in Cambridgeshire do come along to the Old Fire Engine House to see an exhibition of recent paintings by myself,...