Great British Travel Posters
31st March - 31st May 2026
This exhibition looks at how our Great British Travel Posters come into being. From choosing the locations, to sketches made on the spot, preparatory paintings in the studio, and the influence of classic travel poster design and typeface - each step shapes the final poster.
We’re focusing on six northern locations in this exhibition, but the full collection journeys far beyond these.
The posters are a collaboration. We visit each location together, gathering sketches and reference. Scott develops the paintings, and Josie shapes the final poster design, drawing on the language of classic British travel posters.
We’re focusing on six northern locations in this exhibition, but the full collection journeys far beyond these.
The posters are a collaboration. We visit each location together, gathering sketches and reference. Scott develops the paintings, and Josie shapes the final poster design, drawing on the language of classic British travel posters.
Masham
Across this field ran the old road to Masham. Down by the River Ure there was a fording place used for centuries until a bridge was built upstream in Tudor times. The old road was trodden by the flocks of sheep belonging to Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys heading to Masham market place. Here Richard the Third would have ridden from Middleham Castle to York and, much, much earlier, travellers bound for the Thornborough Henges 5000 years ago would also have walked this way. They may well have been carrying stone axes from Langdale in the Lake District or precious salt from the pans on the Yorkshire east coast because this was part of a very ancient highway.
Masham poster
Winter Trees, Masham - Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 25cm x 30cm (10" x 12") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Masham, Spring Sunset - Ian Scott Massie
$695.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 50cm x 40cm (20" x 16") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Masham -
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Three Peaks
Around the Three Peaks the Yorkshire Dales are rich in folklore. On the old road which runs over nearby Cam Fell a ghostly hound waits to attack travellers. On the same route lies on inn where a ghostly joiner forever saws and hammers unseen. Under Penyghent fairies live in dark caverns, turning back cave explorers with waves of etherial music. These hills are all strange places. For example, If you climb to the summit of Ingleborough you’ll find the remains of a hill fort with the circular remains of prehistoric shelters, Who built it and why? Nobody knows…
Three Peaks: Blue
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 40cm x 22cm (16" x 9") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Three Peaks Poster
The Three Peaks
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Ladyhill - Wensleydale
Around Ladyhill are the remains of a rabbit warren which functioned from the eighteenth century until the 1930s. The rabbits were a variety that was born with black fur. As they matured the fur turned to silver. Both types of pelt were farmed and sold to the hat trade with some of them regularly travelling to St Petersburg in Russia. In later years the local Wensleydale Railway (parts of which are still running) was used to take the pelts away. If you think that story seems unlikely it is also a fact that Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, bought his troops’ famous red shirts from nearby Aysgarth Mill.
Ladyhill Study - Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 30cm x 25cm (12" x 10")
Sunset Ladyhill- Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 30cm x 25cm (12" x 10")
Ladyhill - Wensleydale poster
Wensleydale
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Durham
The cathedral was built here it stands because this is the spot where St Cuthbert’s coffin rooted itself to the earth. He died in 687 but, after Viking raids on Lindisfarne, his remains were carried to many places in the North in search of somewhere to lay him to rest. They stopped for a while at Chester le Street and went as far south as Ripon where another of the Lindisfarne saints, Wilfred, had built an abbey. I first came to Durham in 1973 at a very traumatic moment in my life. The cathedral was, and still is for me, a place of spiritual comfort and peace. I can look for hours at the beauty of it’s soaring architecture and my very favourite place is to stand on the tower top and look out at this most lovely of cities.
Durham Study - Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 25cm x 30cm (10" x 12")
Durham Summer - Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 25cm x 30cm (10" x 12") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Durham poster
Durham
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Whitby
Whitby has so many stories. St Hilda famously turned the local snakes to stone and their remains can found today in the form of ammonites. When the abbey’s bells were removed by Henry VIII’s commissioners, the ship carrying them sank on leaving harbour. The bells can now be heard tolling in the deeps. James Cook worked here in a shipping office and went on to circumnavigate the world and Bram Stoker chose the town as the place where Dracula, in the shape of a huge black dog, came ashore to wreak havoc with his deadly, toothy kisses. What a place!
Whitby, Morning Mist - Ian Scott Massie
$695.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 50cm x 40cm (20" x 16") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Whitby poster
Whitby
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
York
So many layers of history go into the streets of York. There’s the Roman city with its main street lying underneath the cobblestones of Stonegate. There’s the Vikings whose presence is reflected in the dimensions of the shop fronts in Fossgate, unchanged since before the Norman conquest. And then everywhere there are medieval churches and the Minster plus St Mary’s Abbey, the Merchant Adventurers Hall and the city walls.
And everywhere there are stories. One of my favourites tells of Roman soldiers who march through the cellar of the Treasurer’s House. They’re only visible from the knees up because the Roman road surface lies a foot beneath the floor.
And everywhere there are stories. One of my favourites tells of Roman soldiers who march through the cellar of the Treasurer’s House. They’re only visible from the knees up because the Roman road surface lies a foot beneath the floor.
Petergate York (Screen print) - Ian Scott Massie
$149.00
Limited edition screen print Framed 40cm x 30cm (16" x 12") £149 Unframed Mounted, backed, cello wrapped and ready for framing £119 - please email Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
Petergate York (Original watercolour) - Ian Scott Massie
$295.00
Original Watercolour painting Framed 25cm x 30cm (10" x 12") Please note we can't send framed work through the post but contact us if you would like something unframed and posted to you.
York poster
York -
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
Developed from sketches made on location and studio preparatory paintings, this poster forms part of our Great British Travel Posters series.
One of six northern locations featured in the exhibition.
Printed to order in A3, A2 and A1, framed or unframed. Delivered directly to you. From £21.
View available sizes and order via our sister site.
The original paintings are not available to ship as we can't get insurance to post glass. If you can't get to Masham and really want one of the paintings, talk to us we'll do our very best to try to get it to you somehow!
Posters are printed to order and delivered directly from our print partner.