The village of Selborne in Hampshire is known as the former home (now a museum) of the eighteenth century naturalist Gilbert White. It also has a rather splendid beech hanger (a hanger is a wood on a steep slope). I recently spent some lovely time in…
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White, mid-grey and black: a simple and effective treatment for this venerable beech tree. Drawn using Molotow All4One Hybrid Acrylic marker pens. Savernake Beech hybrid acrylic on A4 paper mounted in ice-white card to fit 16 x 12″ frame SOLD “Savernake Beech” was painted for…
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There is an oak tree in Savernake Forest called the Cathedral Oak. It gets its name from its enormous, hollow trunk, into which we can peer through one of several narrow cracks or windows. Looking up at the massive branches framing a bright spring sky,…
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This is one of a line of beech trees that stands atop a local chalk ridge. My painting was based on a photograph that I took on a clear, bright winter’s morning, looking up into the branches. I used acrylic paint from the tube and…
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