Trees – Page 3 – Amanda Bates art

Undertow

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Rural, Trees

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″

Contre-Jour

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

There’s something very dramatic about viewing something “against the light”, or from the shadow side with light seeping around the edges. And I rather like dramatic. This is another scene from Church Lane, in Witley, Surrey. The lane is less sunken here, near the top…
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|beech |sunken lane |Surrey

Green Men in coloured pencil (2)

AVAILABLE, Collected (post), Colour, Coloured pencil, Drawing, Imagination, on paper, People, Trees

It being winter, I had moved in to the house to draw my green men. Coloured pencil is a fairly innocuous medium, with the possible exception of the pencil shavings. But the only drawing board that I have that is big enough for a sheet…
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|Green man

Green Men in coloured pencil (1)

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Collected (post), Coloured pencil, Drawing, Imagination, on paper, People, Trees

I wanted to take the green man idea a little further than my series of small (10x15cm) lino cuts allowed. Green men, in the form of foliate heads, are found as carvings in stone or wood in some medieval churches, so I decided to draw…
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The Olive Tree

Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Ink, Mixed media, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Trees, Urban

Olive trees are great – when they get old they become wonderfully gnarly, and they produce olives, which are good to eat – but you don’t find many growing in the woods around here. They are neither native nor naturalised in Britain, but they can…
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|Lisbon |olive |olive tree

The High Road – SOLD

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Ink, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

Once I had decided on the title of The Low Road, it was inevitable that I was going to make a companion piece based on the “high road” above it. This is facing towards Witley; the first drawing faces the opposite direction but is closer…
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|sunken lane |Surrey |Tree Route |Witley

The Low Road – SOLD

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

This fantastic sunken lane has provided me with subjects for several drawings since I first visited it in January of this year. Knave, Knoll, Shadow Dance, and now The Low Road, are all set on Church Lane in Witley near Godalming, Surrey. This, however, is…
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|sunken lane |Tree Route

Quarry (Huckers Lane)

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This is part of the sheer side of a track leading from Huckers Lane (in Selborne, Hampshire) to a field gate. Immediately above Huckers Cottage is an outcrop of the Greensand, a small scarp, the southern end of the quarry dug out of Church Meadow.…
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|Greensand |Hampshire |Selborne

King of the Castle

Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Ink, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

I was passing through the New Forest earlier this year, on my way home from delivering work to an open exhibition, and I decided to stop at Forsey Gardens. It was a hot day and the gardens, pleasant though they are, provided relatively little relief…
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|Hampshire |Holly |New Forest

Hedge

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

I made this piece as a rolling demo during Hampshire Open Studios at Sherborne St John, 25-28 August 2023. It is a drawing of part of a grown-out hedge on a low woodbank, looking out of the wood to a wintery field. Every time that…
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|Ash |Field maple |hedge