Author: Amanda
Oak Bole
This wonderful hollow tree is on the A339 near Greenham Common. I used pens, pencils, pastels and a variety of bottled inks in my attempt to portray the weathered and gnarly surface of its trunk (bole is another word for tree trunk). Oak Bole mixed…
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Embankment
Embankment shows a wooded section of an earthwork (the outer rampart) at Danebury Hill, an impressive Iron Age hill fort near Andover in Hampshire. I have been told that the entire site was, not that long ago, almost entirely woodland. The council have since cleared…
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Blue Twist
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The Devil’s Den (The Resting Place) – SOLD
Painted from life on an unseasonably hot April day. At the time of painting, I only knew this Wiiltshire dolmen (the closest prehistoric stone monument to where I live) by the name used on the Ordnance Survey map (and in Julian Cope‘s excellent gazetteer, The…
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Savernake Beech – SOLD
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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Downland Beech – SOLD
Beech Hedge – SOLD
Forest Cathedral – SOLD
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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