This is the wall of rock that rises from the sunken road’s surface to the viewpoint of Multistorey. The title, Elevation, refers to the elevated pathway above it as well as to its verticality (a plan drawing lays out the detail of a horizontal surface…
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Memories of summer under the beeches… these trees line the side of a minor road that snakes up Nuthanger Down. We’re looking at them from the side that the road is on; on the other side, there is a steep, grassy slope down to the…
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This is based on a fairly old photograph from 2018, albeit of a place I know well and visit often. There is a distinct blue cast in that photograph that I found attractive, but it was difficult to reconcile the blue-green of the trees with…
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I very seldom reuse a source photograph, but I did here. The photograph was taken in 2018 and I used it that year to make Hanging Ash, a monochrome ink on kaolin-coated board, a drawing that was subsequently sold at an art fair. The bluff…
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This is based on a photograph that I took on a walk in east Hampshire which included two bridleways called Standfast Lane and Mill Lane. I can’t remember which lane I took the photograph on , but it doesn’t really matter because Standfast is a…
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This is another scene from my walk in the Shropshire hills in January. The wall alongside the track I was following had fallen into disrepair some time ago, and had been populated by holly, rowan and oak. This was near the top of the Stiper…
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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…
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A nascent sunken lane running alongside the much deeper Hartley Mauditt Lane (featured in MultiStorey and Mauditt). The group of trees to the right are also shown, from a different angle, in Undertow. Summit, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x16″
Exposed tree roots on the sheer side of a greensand holloway in Surrey. Moss Walk, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 14×11″
Beech trees throw some incredible shapes. This is on the upper storey path from my large drawing Multistorey. Undertow, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x16″