Painter Ian Patience’s forays into Northumberland’s Cheviot Hills have produced what is literally a cutting edge exploration of geology and art.
Ian and amateur geologist friend Stephen Marker have made scores of trips to wander over hills which millions of years ago were a volcanic landscape.
Back at his home in Felton in Northumberland, Ian uses a succession of instruments to cut slices of a hairsbreadth thinness from the rock samples he has collected.
