Print – Steep Hill

Description

Steeped in History

‘Steep Hill’ is Kerry’s Lincoln Cathedral Quarter fine art print. It is a faithful reproduction of the painting which depicts the cathedral and its surrounding medieval area of the city. Printed on the finest quality paper and surrounded by a sturdy white mount, it is all set waiting for you to choose a frame to put it in.

Steep Hill is exactly what it says on the tin – Steep, very, very Steep. It is this particular hill and its gradient that meant that until the Eiffel tower was built Lincoln Cathedral remained in fact for centuries the highest man-made structure.

As you climb – and I mean in some places it quite literally feels like that – climbing – from the more modern (by cathedral standards at least) city centre, towards the castle and cathedral you pass by some of the quirkiest most intriguing buildings. Of course being an artist who thrives on said ‘quirk’ it would have been almost impossible for Kerry NOT to have painted the scene.

Wonky Whimsical Wonder

The angles and perspective from any persons view is unavoidably skewed and irresistibly – for Kerry – there for the recording. From the Jews House to the Tea rooms, to the pubs and inns, to the windmill, and the Tudor-beamed visitor information centre, it’s a fascinating place. The many colours and textures that can be seen appear here in this image.

Unusually for Kerry it is also one of the rare paintings where she has chosen to include figures in her work. This is something she rarely does but here she felt it would add to the sense of this being a multicultural vibrant space where history and modernity collide with fabulous results. The painting fizzes with the hustle and bustle of everyday life in an extraordinary space.

Kerry loves to include all the little details that draw your eye in towards her work and encourage you to keep looking. Tiny bricks and flowers, cobbles on streets and carved stoneware have been painstakingly referenced here to great effect giving a sense of the true reality of a wander along this ancient fareway and the imprint that dozens over visitors and inhabitants alike have left in centuries past.

A Lincoln Cathedral Quarter fine art print such as this, celebrates the beauty of a community within it and gives a sense of time and place to those who look and know because they have experienced the same for themselves.