President’s Award
I’m very excited to report that I won the President’s Award at the Society of Graphic Fine Arts 104th Open Exhibition for Squeee! The picture was sold at the Private View on Tuesday (11 March).
Author: Amanda
Tilt
In which I return to my favourite set of wonky hornbeams, this time for a grand scale piece on paper, allowing for more of the slanted trees to be discerned down the line… I love the combined drama of these crazily angled trees, the organic…
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Piggy Wink
This young pig has a very knowing look in their eye. It’s probably because they knew that it was almost feeding time (seee Squeee!). Piggy Wink, Indian ink on paper, approx A4. Mounted to 12×16″ £85
Lean-to
This is based on a photograph I took at Calke Abbey of some storm-damaged sweet chestnuts. They were significant entities and these are a couple of limbs that had parted company with the trunks. Someone came along and tried to make a den but I…
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Congregate
This is my second version of this subject, a group of yews sprawled over the stones of Wakehurst Place’s rock walk; the first sold straight off the drawing board! This is a little bit smaller and a little bit looser than the first version, but…
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Open Exhibitions 2024
Society of Graphic Fine Artists Open, Mall Galleries, London. 11 – 16 March 2024Three works, Multistorey (Winner, Monochrome Award), Contré Jour and King of the Castle. Society of Women Artists Open, Mall Galleries, London. 25 – 29 June 2024One work: Trees on a Dry Stone…
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Branching Out
Some of the extensive branches of an oak tree growing at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. The tree itself bears a plaque, screwed to its trunk, “In loving memory… ” There is a name, and dates indicating that the gentleman in question died in 1984 at the…
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Tangle
A tangle of roots help this veteran Hawthorn cling to the hillside. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 18 x 24″
Squeee!
The origins of this drawing and the photograph it was based on are quite involved and not very interesting, so let’s just say that I had this photograph, of piglets crowding to the newly-filled trough at Bucklebury Farm Park in Berkshire, and I thought that…
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Embankment Revisited
This was done from new photographs, but I have worked with this view before in ink (2019) and in oil (2018). It’s at Danebury Hill near Andover, Hampshire ; there is a splendid hillfort there and this is looking along the outer embanked fortification ring.…
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