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...

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

What do I mean by reverse archaeology? That archaeology may have something to offer painting is less complicated than you might imagine....

‘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 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