The Graphite Gallery

of Cumbria.

Welcome to the Graphite Gallery of Cumbria, based in Keswick, a gallery of artwork depicting landscapes and historic scenes about the Cumbrian way of life of high fells, hidden dales and hardy people; woodsmen, shepherds, bobbin turners and miners in the grand Lake District mountain landscape. 

Since 2012 Helen Bradbury, a local Keswick artist, has been drawing and painting the lake district fells and the places where people lived and worked in historic Cumbria. Helen uses minerals and materials from the Cumbrian landscape special to Cumbria that were mined or made here, but especially the wonderful and expressive Graphite and Charcoal to draw these ancient places including mines and quarries.

Graphite, or "Wad",  was mined locally in Borrowdale's ancient and mysterious Graphite mine. She also uses Derwent Graphite pencil and oil paints including Cumbrian Iron ore paint and pastels made at west Cumbria's Florence Iron mine. Our prints and cards are printed by McKane's of Keswick on Cumbrian paper made at the long established firm of Cropper's in

Kentmere near Kendal. We want our work to represent what the real Cumbria is about. 

Keep it Cumbrian!

SHOP OPENING TIMES; 

Usually Saturday to Thursday, 11 AM to 5 PM or we can open on request. We accept £ cash and most types of card payment.

The Graphite Gallery aims to convey the essence of the district today and in the past where an entrancing mixture of resourceful people, determined quarrymen, miners, charcoal burners, shepherds, woodsmen and wary smugglers roamed and toiled. We also hope that you may find a picture for a wall in your home that will stir your imagination of these people and their stories or perhaps of your own wanderings and visits here where so much has gone before.

The Graphite Gallery

of Cumbria.

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Please view our pictures in the gallery in the following categories; Media of; Graphite, pencil, charcoal, oil paint or Subjects of; landscapes, skies and trees, mining and quarrying or ancient crafts.

PRINTS;

We offer prints in an A4 and A3 size delivered securely with insurance by Royal mail 2nd or 1st class post. Mounted prints are mounted to order in a white mount and will take a few days or so to mount and post and prints loose are available. 

We can also frame or mount A4 and A3 prints to order and deliver locally or they can be collected from our Keswick shop, frames are black or mid grey, but we can also offer more choice in a longer time-frame. We can also deliver framed prints and original artwork in the UK or worldwide using insured UPS couriers, please contact us for a quote.

We are sometimes asked for a drawing of someone's favourite or nearby fell and we can take commissions on request. For framed or mounted prints or commissions please contact us, see our contact us page. 

Orders can be placed using the Gallery and Checkout pages and payments can be made using most major debit/credit cards, Paypal or by cheque.

ORIGINALS;

We also have some framed originals of our artwork for sale. These are listed against the corresponding print in the website Gallery where still available. We can post framed originals using UPS couriers, please contact us for a quote. They can be viewed and purchased from our Keswick shop or delivered locally, if you are interested please contact us. 

Our terms and conditions of sale, privacy statement and cookie notice are on our Contact us page.

All pictures in this website are the copyright of Helen Bradbury.

Where to see our artwork for sale;

Sykes Farm Tearoom, Buttermere.

A lovey farm cafe that serves home made soup, cakes, pies and ice-cream.

Graphite Gallery, Main street, Keswick.

An interesting gallery of heritage art & mini museum in the heart of Cumbria.

FLORENCE IRON MINE

ARTS CENTRE

Our current exhibition is at Florence Iron mine Arts centre in Egremont, west Cumbria. We have a selection of industrial and landscape pictures for sale including local Iron mining topics. Florence Iron mine is an interesting site with an arts centre practicing many crafts including pottery and paint making, frequent exhibitions of local artists and a lovely cafe. Our exhibition can be viewed alogside a recently added mineral collection.