The exhibition Grim Up North? comprises the landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes and atmos-scapes that John Ross has painted over the last decade or so: “landscape with teeth”, as he describes it. John’s paintings let you see and feel the black heat and dangerous orange of Southern Spain, banging up against the will ’o’ the wisp change of the cold lochside light of North Scotland.

A key element of the exhibition is the celebration of the mighty Yorkshire-scape in all her forms and seasons; this webbed in with the long tough history of this great county. Using his paint brush as a walking stick, John explores a painted history where the hills, moors, becks and stones hold ancient secrets of things past, sometimes human, often dark, but always gripping.