RENOWNED and respected painter Julian Cooper is the first artist to feature in an innovative new exhibition series being staged at Brantwood.

Julian’s spectacular Low Rigg oil painting will grace the revered Coniston venue’s Blue Gallery from today (Thursday) as part of One to One, an occasional series of exhibitions in which Brantwood looks at just one work.

Artists concentrate a great deal of time and energy in individual works, endowing a single painting with unique character and vision. In the gallery or museum the individuality of the single work is often lost as the visitor goes from picture to picture comparing works and spending only a short time with each one. The idea is that One to One provides an encounter with a single work in a setting designed to concentrate our focus upon it and invites us to spend an extended period of time with it.

And what a terrific way to open the series with Julian’s work, monumental in both scale and vision.

The Grasmere-born artist is a member of the distinguished dynasty of Lakeland painters, the Heaton Coopers. He is noted for his lifelong attachment to the rendering of mountains and rock surfaces – a search which has led him from his native Cumbria to places such as India, Tibet, and Italy.

Brantwood’s Blue Gallery daily from 10am-5pm.

For further information telephone 015394-41396 or visit www.brantwood.org.uk.