Overhang and Underash have been selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition. This year the exhibition will be online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of…
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I recently took delivery of the first of my new range of sinterescent art prints in small (~A5) and medium (~A4) sizes. At the moment I have three designs in stock, with prices starting at £5 for a small print.
Sinterescent art prints, made on ISO9706 permanent grade acid-free paper, are comparable to ‘Giclée’ prints, with images graded at 6 or higher on the Blue-Wool scale for lightfastness. Papers All substrates are FSC approved, compliant to ISO14001, are rated ‘acid free’ and have non-ageing specification…
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I have been busy setting up a range of new print-on-demand, high quality greetings cards that you can buy direct from the printers. Cards can be bought singly for £3 each (125.8 x 175mm) or in custom packs of five smaller, A6, cards for £8…
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Cernunnos, the horned one, is the Celtic god of the forest. Resplendent in autumn’s riches, this lordly beech seems a worthy successsor, high on the slope with its heavy, curled antler-branches. Beech frequently grows fabulous shapes and it is to emphasise these that I use…
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Natural erosion of the chalky soil frequently reveals the roots of trees on the Hampshire hangers, but this beech is an extreme case. Immense, intriguingly intertwined, the muscular, naked root structure forms an intricate lattice roof over an intimate hollowed-out cavern. Somebody has fetched branches…
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The Ankerwycke Yew is, according to tradition, the tree beneath which King John signed the Magna Carta. It certainly could have been – it is old enough and in the right sort of place – but we may never know for sure. It’s a very…
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Overhang was worked up using photographs that I took a couple of years ago near the hamlet of Empshott Green in Hampshire. It’s a small place, accessed by small, steep roads set into pale, friable cliff faces of malm rock. These cliffs, riven with tree…
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Almost directly opposite the tree featured in Underash is another mature ash tree whose roots stand proud of the ground. It’s not so high up, but it is a very interesting shape, with thick stems of ivy twisting around it and exposed flints in the…
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One of the blessings of lockdown was the necessity of restricting my explorations to the local area. It seemed as if the whole village and its dog were heading out along the more obvious paths into the (rather lovely) local hills, and so I went…
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