YORK artist Mark Braithwaite has chosen a title for his latest painting, a snowy North Yorkshire scene, with the aid of a discourse on Facebook.

“We’d struggled to come up with a name which does this beautiful painting justice, but after much discussion on Facebook, Mark settled on Sleepy Hollow, which seems perfect,” says his wife, Anne, joint owner of the Braithwaite Gallery, in Low Petergate, York, where the work will be on sale.

“We’re delighted to announce that Mark has at last finished this long-awaited addition to his Lost Connection series of red telephone boxes, and it seems rather fitting that it was completed with the snow in the air last week, looking at the weather out of the gallery window.”

Mark has been working on his painting of a village scene in Hovingham since spring.

“I worked in oil on canvas; the first time for a Lost Connection painting, as the rest of them have all been done in watercolour,” says Mark, who raced in his car to Hovingham at sunset several times last winter to acquire “the perfect shot” from which to work.

“Here at the gallery, we think his persistence paid off,” says Anne.