Original Lakeland Oil Paintings by George Elliott

I spent my formative years growing up in the Lake District and was encouraged by my art teacher to paint. He once introduced me to William Heaton Cooper, saying one day I would be on the same step as him. However, I don’t paint in watercolour, as the hills and mountains of the Lake District, formed by Glacial flow, storms, and floods over the millennia, need a more expressive form of art with every brushstroke counting.

I was born in Quetta India, then in the UK, I went to school first at Lapstone Road, Millom, then Holborn Hill Boys, Millom Technical School, and carrying on to the Barrow Technical College of Further Education. Later, I worked at the Proof and Experimental Establishment, Eskmeals as an apprentice Fitter and Turner and have since spent many holidays camping and glamping off the beaten track in the area.

Having Hostelled, fell raced, and walked extensively in all weathers and seasons every day for a decade and more, I felt a calling to the very rugged nature of the place and the urge to try to express my feeling with paintbrush and oils. My attire was not Berghaus or Rohan, but the same clothes I went to school in! (Later years it is now Berghaus and Rohan!)

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Original Lakeland Oil Paintings by George Elliott