Coast To Coast

by Kane Cunningham

Overview

This Coast to Coast guide offers the artist, photographer, walker and tourist a unique perspective on the Northern Landscape. From Robin Hood's Bay to the Lake District, artist Kane Cunningham takes you on a journey, a personal guide to the studios of artists, art galleries, tearooms, hotels and historic country houses. A journey of discovery, history, politics, farming, industry and Lakeland Poets. This companion guide will help you discover for yourself a spectacular landscape painted by artists over the centuries and the finest places to visit to simply enjoy the view.

Cunningham describes with interest and humour the challenge of plein air painting in the North of England, the characters he meets while painting, the Hogarth prints hanging on a pub wall, the BBC World Service, Salvage Hunters TV programme, L.S. Lowry, Kendal Black Drop, David Hockney, naked men lounging by an open-air pool, Driffield WI, Hollywood stars, furious gamekeepers and sex on a barge. This Coast to Coast companion guide is more than a description of the best views to see; it also tells you about the people and places that add colour to the journey and have shaped the landscape we all love today.

"Part crazy travel guide, part edgy auto-biography, this book proves that Kane is just as good a story-teller in the written word as he is in real life. Like his paintings Coast to Coast bursts with energy, courts controversy, and ultimately charms with its humour and colour. A must-read for anyone who holds art, landscape, and the North in their heart." Joe Cornish, Landscape Photographer

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162694946
Publisher:	Kane Cunningham
Publication date:	06/20/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Kane Cunningham was born in Manchester in 1961. He first shot to worldwide fame in 2009 when he bought a house on the edge of a cliff in Scarborough for £3,000 to create a work of art and multimedia installation. It was a bungalow destined to fall into the sea due to erosion. The council enforced a demolition order in 2013 due to concerns that the property was a danger to the public. It then cost another £3,000 to have it demolished. The House Project was featured on the popular television series Salvage Hunters, BBC Radio 4 Front Row and BBC television series Town with Nicholas Crane.

An art lecturer for 35 years, Kane retired in 2017 to become a full-time artist, photographer and writer. He is primarily a landscape artist, painting in watercolour and following in the tradition of J.M.W. Turner. He travels extensively across the UK and Europe painting and living in a VW campervan.

Presently he is working on an artist’s companion guide for Wales, Scotland and Ireland and painting large scale watercolours in extreme and remote locations.