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’The paintings in this show are about my return to a landscape that I have felt rooted in and inspired by all my life. They are an attempt to distill the physical, emotional and spiritual experience of being in a landscape that I have loved and carried in me as I have lived and worked and painted elsewhere... It was this landscape that inspired me to be an artist.’

The landscape to which Sturgis has returned is the Kentmere valley in the Lake District. It is still a remote place, of dry-stone walls, of rugged fells, of working hill-farmers and white-washed farmhouses. It is a landscape which …