Welcome to DerekEland.com

Derek Eland, who was born in Cumbria and now lives near Penrith, is an emerging contemporary landscape artist who has exhibited throughout Cumbria and nationally.

Originally trained as a watercolourist, Derek works mostly in a combination of ink and acrylic and is greatly influenced by landscape. His work highlights the patterns seen in fells, fields, roads, rivers and hamlets through strong dark lines and slabs of colour. It is this boldness of line and colour which help define his work as contemporary. Derek has held a number of successful solo exhibitions at Neo’s Gallery in Cockermouth, where his work sold out in 2005. His work is mostly influenced by the contemporary artists Kyffin Williams, Mark Rothko and Peter Prendergast and is also strongly influenced by the early 20th Century Expressionists. In 2007 his work was short-listed for the Celeste Art Prize.

Derek is a gallery artist at the Neo 's Gallery, Cockermouth, where his original work can always be found, along with cards and prints.

Selected Exhibitions:

  • Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Wales 2001
  • The Lowry, Manchester, 2006-2007
  • Royal Watercolour Society, Watercolour 21, Bankside Gallery London, 2006
  • Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition -
  • The Mall Galleries, London and Manchester Town Hall, 2005
  • Cumbrian Open Exhibition, Winner, 2005
  • Neo ’s Gallery, Cockermouth
  • Lake Artists ’ Society Summer Exhibition, Grasmere
  • The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
  • Pinfold Gallery, Bowness
  • High Head Sculpture Valley, Carlisle
  • Slaley Hall, Northumberland