Root Cellar
This was a particularly pleasing collection of shapes that I noticed in the tree that I drew for High and Dry. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16″
Category: Trees
Ground Level
A closer look at one of the spectacular beeches, and its exposed roots, at Snelsmore Common (see alse Epic, Chorus Line and Reciprocate). Ink on kaolin-coated board, 16 x 12″
Decomposure – SOLD
I’m not entirely sure what these mushrooms are, but, as they are growing on a dead tree stump, it’s reasonable to assume that they’re part of the forest’s recycling process, promoting rot or decomposition. The title is an invented word, intended to evoke this idea,…
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Things That Fall Off Trees
This is a fun little series of acrylic paintings on canvas, intended to complement my tree drawings. The first of these little paintings, Three hazelnuts, was made at the behest of The Prince’s Trust, who sell these specially created 20x20cm canvases for a fixed price…
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Folly Wood’s legendary roots (part 2)
I decided to make a large drawing of the long tree roots in Folly Wood Gorge, using a full imperial sheet of watercolour (approx. 56x75cm) paper and coloured inks. I exagerrated the colours and indulged in a bit of careful splatting (an excuse to add…
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Folly Wood’s legendary roots (part 1)
There’s a ridge in Wiltshire not far from Devizes, that has a gap in it, a place where the bedrock cracked, perhaps. A track (it’s a bridleway) passes through the gap. The sides are high, and trees grow on the chalky high ground. It’s a…
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Sway
Sway, inks on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches / 34x44x3cm framed These hornbeam (and their friend, the ash), seem to be dancing together to a gentle tune. I used pattern again on this one, in the coloured areas, and I think it sits more…
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Root Cellar
This is one of High and Dry‘s roots. Root Cellar, ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches / 34x44x3cm framed
High and Dry (Corner Ash)
There is a byway open to all traffic, or BOAT, near Alton called Water Lane. It is, for much of its length, a sunken lane or holloway – that is, a route lower than the surrounding land surface. Holloways can be created by the passage…
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Chorus Line – SOLD
Exposed tree roots fascinate me. They are secrets revealed, intricately interwoven, the manifold anchors for massive entities – and the forest’s unexpected means of communication. These beech roots cascade down the steepest of slopes while the trees that they belong to do their best to…
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