This shows rowan trees atop a tumbledown dry stone wall at Brook Vessons nature reserve in Shropshire. The location, which I visited in January and would like to return to in a milder month, is part of a derelict hillside mining village abandoned in the early twentieth century. It is quite eerie: piles of stone, many with trees growing over them, mark the route of a street or the foundations of a house. One or two buildings retain more shape, but none look remotely modern. It feels out of time.
The name of this drawing echoes that of Woodbank, to which it has some similarities
Pigment inks on kaolin-coated board, 16″ x 12″
