Marion Whybrow wrote in 1987 about Fearnley in her Inspire 2 exhibition catalogue, that 'his subjects are various-towns, villages, churches, isolated farms, which appear unplanned yet integrated with their surroundings. He has a special liking for the curious - juxtapositions of the new and the obsolete in buildings and artefacts, the unpretentious and the eccentricities of people and their animals.'