Staithes

StaithesStaithes, North Yorkshire Gicle Art Print Staithes is one of those places that gets under your skin and stays there. Tucked into a deep cleft in the cliffs on the North Yorkshire coast, it is a village of extraordinary character a tight cluster of fishermen's cottages tumbling down to a narrow harbour, the beck running through the middle, the cliffs rising steeply on either side. Barely changed in centuries. Painted by Turner. Made famous by the

drowned unjustly in the pool

Sheila Gill has painted it with the loose

giving the painting a life and interest that goes beyond the purely painterly

To watch hares at play in the early morning light is one of the great privileges of the British countryside

just a couple of miles from Sheila's Derbyshire studio

Tucked into a deep cleft in the cliffs on the North Yorkshire coast

The great gritstone escarpment runs for three miles along the eastern moor above Hathersage — a mile-high wall of ancient rock that has drawn climbers

exhilarating force of it

and luminosity that only the finest materials and a lifetime of skill can produce

every nuance of the original — the deep blues and purples

A Perfect View — Giclée Art Print

she likes what she sees