{"id":2326,"date":"2012-04-03T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2012-04-03T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:42:43","slug":"pen-and-ink-drawings-of-frank-armstrong-on-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2012\/04\/pen-and-ink-drawings-of-frank-armstrong-on-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen and ink drawings of Frank Armstrong on show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2327\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Armstrong-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2327\" title=\"Frank Armstrong pen and ink drawing. Pic Dales Countryside Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Armstrong-3-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Armstrong pen and ink drawing. Pic Dales Countryside Museum\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Armstrong pen and ink drawing. Pic Dales Countryside Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes features the work of roaming artist Frank Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Armstrong, who died in 1967 at the age of 67, spent days out in North Yorkshire in a caravan with members of his family, painting the landscapes he saw on his travels.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of his work will be on show to visitors at the <a title=\"Dales Countryside Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshiredales.org.uk\/outandabout\/see\/dcm\" target=\"_blank\">Museum<\/a>, until April 29.<\/p>\n<p>Museum Manager Fiona Rosher said: \u201cSome of his finest work was executed in pen and ink and the large drawings in this exhibition were produced on the spot in front of the subject.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey show how much can be conveyed with just a line. Sunlight dances around trees, water splashes over rocks and smoke rises over old weathered chimney stacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The complex detail of minster towers is captured, as is the feeling of space and weather on distant hillsides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile enjoying Frank\u2019s original work, it is worth considering how little many of the views have changed in the 60 years since they were drawn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have the great empty spaces punctuated by intimate villages, the fine churches, old bridges and flowing rivers and waterfalls which he recorded with such pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As his son says, Frank Armstrong\u2019s Yorkshire is still a great place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes features the work of roaming artist Frank Armstrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[440,2303],"tags":[4459,4460,4448,4449,4446,4452,4458,4451,4444,4453,4461,4455,4450,4445,4443,4456,4454,4447,4457,1333],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-featured","category-news-in-brief","tag-april-29","tag-caravan","tag-chimney-stacks","tag-countryside-museum","tag-days-out-in-north-yorkshire","tag-empty-spaces","tag-fiona","tag-flowing-rivers","tag-frank-armstrong","tag-hillsides","tag-landscapes","tag-minster","tag-mr-armstrong","tag-pen-and-ink","tag-pen-and-ink-drawings","tag-space-weather","tag-splashes","tag-sunlight-dances","tag-waterfalls","tag-yorkshire","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}