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Peak District Gallery
Simon Parkin is a painter who has inhabited many landscapes, from the hills that surround Glossop to the very different terrain of North Africa or India. Although his work bears many traces of these different encounters, Simon's focus returns repeatedly to the high places of the Peak District, one of the last pockets of wilderness still remaining in England. These are hills that the artist has known all his life, yet transformed into paint it is as if they are seen for the first time. What may appear familiar can hold surprises for both artist and viewer alike with the fresh vision of every new encounter.
The richly textured surface of these paintings also reminds us that landscape exists not just in space but in time, and time takes different forms. Emotion and experience conjoin in the fluid currents of memory; these paintings speak of a deep, intuitive relationship with place. Yet they also dispassionately suggest the linear flow of human history that has left its trace on the land: the dry stone walls that both contain and follow the contours of the hills, or the ancient trackways that traverse them. Beneath this beats the slow pulse of geological time, the great forces that forged the gritstone of the Dark Peak and that continue still. The tiny pebbles and other found objects worked into the surface of many of these paintings hold a memory of these deep unspoken rhythms. But they are also talismans of the artist’s presence within the landscape, watching, absorbing, being.
Fionna Barber
Principal lecturer
Manchester School of Art
 Millstone Edge 20x25cm SOLD |  Dusk on Middle Moor 30x40cm SOLD |  Stanage Edge Climbers 80 x100cmSOLD |
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 Kinder Reservouir 40X40CM |  Just Passing 70x85cm SOLD |  A scattering of snow 110x60cmSOLD |
 Snowy Wormstones 30x40cm SOLD |  From Shelf stones 25x35cm |  From Shelf Stone towards Glossop 50x100cm SOLD |
 Following a stream 60x75cm |  Dusk from near Shelf stones 30x40cm |  From Mouselow Farm 30x40cm SOLD |
 Snowy Swinshaw Reservoir 20x25cm |  Towards the Knot 20x25cm (2).jpg |  Snow and mist on the edge 50x50cm |
 Looking towards Mam Tor 60x60cm SOLD |  Over the hills and far away 25x35cm |  Path to Wormstones 30x40cm SOLD |
 Longdendale Valley 35x90cm |  Padfield from Redgate 30x40 cm |  England, across the rolling fields 25x35cm |
 Sunny Glossop 20x25cm SOLD |  Buttercups, Cow parsly,Crows and Bees 50x5 SOLD |  Blustery meadow with buttercups and bees 60x90cm |
 White Ponies in the Meadow 30x40cm |  Shire Hill from Derbyshire Level, 35x45cm. |  Straining at the leash 80 x100cm SOLD |
 Autumn red 65 x75 cm Acrylic |  Autumn Light 112x152cm SOLD |  Autumn at Torside 60x60cm SOLD |
 When the light gets in 20x25cm SOLD |  Wild Meadow, 60x50cm |  Cows at Sterndale Moor 22x32 cm |
 Swinshaw Reservoir with horses and buttercups SOLD |  Light in the valley 24x32cm SOLD |  Wormstones 65x65cm SOLD |
 Wormstones 45x55cm SOLD |  Reaching into the Blue Sky 25x35cm SOLD |  Sunset from fields near Coombes edge SOLD |
 Peep O' Day 55x65cm SOLD |  Lovely Daises 60x100cm SOLD |  Dawn 50x70cm SOLD |
 Moonlight Reflection 60x70cm |  Moonlit Pond 60x60cm SOLD |  Summer pond 35x35cm SOLD |
 Summer Meadow with Horses 90x105cm SOLD |  Bluebell Wood 25x35cm SOLD |  Blue Bell Wood 35x45cm SOLD |
 Buttercups and Daisies 25x35cm |  Bluebell Wood 20x30cm SOLD |  From Curber 60 x110cm |
 Dark Edge 60x60cm SOLD |  Coombes edge with crows and heather 60 x60cm |  From Millstone Edge 75x85cm SOLD |
 Mossylea 75x85cm SOLD |  Feeling summer 60x70cm |  Summer haze 120x80cm SOLD |
 When you're so far away 100x60cm SOLD |  Path Through the Heather 50x60cm SOLD |  Breaking through 50x70cm |
 Towards the edge 132x132 cm |  Along the edge 118x65cm SOLD |  Towards Lantern Pike 60x60cm SOLD |
 A clearing sky with crows over Coombes Edge 65x65cm SOLD |  Kinder Downfall 60x60cm |  Mist at Woodhead |
 Light on the Edge SOLD |  Kinder Stones 25x35cm |  Somewhere In-between 40x50cm SOLD |
 Birches and Bracken 65 x65 cm, |  Autumn splendor 40x40cm SOLD |  Birches and Bracken and Blue hills 20 x 25cm |
 Top Swinshaw Reservoir SOLD |  If you look far enough 65x65cm SOLD |  Climbers on Stanage Edge 60x60cmSOLD |
 Kinder ReservoirSOLD |  Deep in the woods 70x85cm SOLD |  A touch of pink 60x60cm SOLD |
 Crows over the edge 50x60cm |  Snowy Coombes Edge SOLD |  Crows on the Snowy Edge 60x60cm SOLD |
 Kinder reservoir from Kinder edge SOLD |  Snowy Shire Hill 60x50cm SOLD |  Moonlit Snow 60x50cm SOLD |
 Swallows Wood 50x50cm SOLD |  Sheep in the Snow 60x60cm SOLD |  Moon and Snow on Old Glossop Church 60x60cm |
 Sheep by snowy edge 60x60cm SOLD |  Sledging 45x50cm |  Cracken Edge - Peep O' Day 110x60cm SOLD |
 The Gatekeepers 45x45cm SOLD |  Walking Away 60x60cm SOLD |  Tending the sheep 40x50cm |
 Chasing Shadows 40x40cm |  Emptying into White 50x50cm SOLD |  Snow Street 55x65cm |
 Winter trees 25x35cm |  Snowy birches with sheep 65x70cm |  Blanketed in snow 60x60cm SOLD |
 Snowy hills 52x70cm SOLD |  Crows in the snow 60x60cm |  Snow Clouds 80x80cm SOLD |
 From the edge 110x60cm SOLD |  Snowy path to Shelf Stones 60x70cm SOLD |  Winter Sun 25x30cm SOLD |
 Winter sun from Kinder 20x25cm SOLD |  Winter dawn 30x40cm SOLD |  Along the snowy edge 48x68cm |
 Snowy Wormstones 60x60cm SOLD |  On the Way to Kinder 25x35cm SOLD |  Tending Sheep 70x80cm SOLD |
 Snow Street 25x35cm SOLD |  Snowy Wormstones 60x60cm SOLD |  First snow 25x30cm SOLD |
 Crows in the Snow 34x58cm |  Together 65 x80cm |  Crow 100 X 80cm SOLD |
