Doing a screen print of The Hepworth Wakefield has been a long time coming, it’s quite a daunting building to depict and the first of my prints to show something that’s been built in my life time.

I’ve been lucky enough to participate in events with this wonderful Wakefield gallery since they started them back in 2014, first with a Christmas Fair and then the Print Fair. I also had an exhibition of my work in the Hepworth Cafe and available at the shop in 2015 - 2016, so after a decade it felt about time to do a print!

This is my favourite view of this West Yorkshire gallery, although I do love the Hepworth Garden too that wasn’t there when I first started showing here and this was the main way I would walk to the gallery. I love how this angular concrete building sits in it’s landscape, the contrast of nature of the willow tree and grasses, flowing water of the Calder going over the weir and concrete angular building with the remains of the towns industrial past.

This award winning building designed by architect David Chipperfield sits on the banks of the River Calder and the windows beautifully frame the surroundings as if works of art themselves. This modern structure is façade is clad with self-compacting pigmented concrete and in a very different to the industrial buildings that surround it and probably a little controversial at the time but there’s a lot of love for this building, inside for the Barbara Hepworth sculpture and for the bravery of the building itself.