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The yews on the rock walk at Wakehurst Place in Sussex (Kew Gardens’ country house) are an impressive sight. They inhabit the rocks, draping their roots flagrantly over them. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches
The yews on the rock walk at Wakehurst Place in Sussex (Kew Gardens’ country house) are an impressive sight. They inhabit the rocks, draping their roots flagrantly over them. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches
Wood garlic, wild garlic, ramsons, cowleek, buckrams, bear leek, bear’s garlic… it has many names. Botanists call it Allium ursinum and it is am indicator of ancient woodland. It flourishes in early spring, before the trees get their leaves. Its balls of stellar white flowers…
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This is a path made by animals (possibly sheep, given the wool caught in the branches). It is at eye level when I stand on the sunken path going down Ladle Hill, and the branches hang low over it. I would not be able to…
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Bradgate Park is within a volcanic stone’s throw of the East Midlands city of Leicester. The area of Charnwood Forest, in which the park lies, contains “some of the oldest rocks in England according to the British Geological Survey web site (I’m guessing that Scotland…
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Group exhibitionRyde, Isle of Wight, 3-18 August 2024 Artikinesis (Adeliza Mole, Rosemary Lawrey and Amanda Bates) are exhibiting SOLENT: FROM BOTH SIDES NOW at The Depozitory, 23 Nelson Street, Ryde PO33 2EZOpen every day 03 to 18 August 2024Tue – Wed 11am – 8pmThu –…
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Two of the many ancient oaks in Bradgate Park, in Leicester, looking all grizzled and wise against the January wreckage of the bracken. I fancied that they were having a discussion on some suitably serious oaky topic. The orange of the bracken balances the cool…
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A few years back, I established a little tradition of painting the bluebells en plein air. They were usually my first plein air piece for the year, as their appearance coincides with the warmer weather. What with one thing and another, and Open Studios happening…
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It’s always rather sad to discover a dead creature. This bee, which looks like a buff-tailed bumblebee queen, expired in our house and when I found it, I decided to draw it. I used a magnifying lamp, but very little, if any part, of my…
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This year’s INSIGHT picture is a new drawing of an old favourite subject. There is a little group of beech trees on the henge at Avebury, Wiltshire that have a particularly impressive set of roots visible. I think that they are called the three sisters…
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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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