Tenacious holly, with its smooth, pale bark, is a great tree for growing interesting shapes; I can see several fantastic beasts in the roots of this tree. But the overall shape puts me in mind of a tentacled sea monster, floating in a sea of…
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Like many trees growing on the steep cliffs and banks of the sunken road, this ash has extended its root system sideways. The sturdiness of those roots and the way that they disappear into fissures in the bedrock is remarkable and tells of adaptability and…
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I love the twist that sweet chestnut develops as it grows: an elegant russet swirl of a tree, here set off beautifully by the cool lines of its silver birch partner. This is a picture that couldn’t not be made: colour and form and movement…
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A narrow, single track road, lower than the fields it travels through, has steep, cliff-like sides, taller than a car, taller than a person. In many places, the pale, chalky bedrock is exposed. Trees grow atop these sides and their roots either delve through fissures…
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This multimasted grown-out hedge looms above a sunken road from its farmyard setting. Someone has added a car tyre, and to my eye this is a porthole to the tree’s dream: to sail the high seas! Galleon Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 16″ x 12″…
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Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 16″ x 12″ Hornbeams in Sandleford Wood, Greenham Common.
I have recently developed a fondness for the hornbeam, a tree that is native to southern Britain. They don’t seem to be very common on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders, but I have found a few places where they grow. Strangely, nearly every local hornbeam seems to…
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Each of these 6″ square panels depicts a man-made birdhouse, or nest box, positioned in a tree. The titles are taken from stereotypical estate agent descriptions. To date, there are eight birdhouses: They will be available for £120 each, framed.
While the uncertainties and caution of emerging from England’s first Covid-19 lockdown over the spring and summer played havoc with my artistic impulses, I still felt a need to be actively creative. So I turned to craft, and I learnt how to make a book…
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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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