Artwork – Amanda Bates art

Tango

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Drawing, Ink, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

A pair of intertwined oak trees in the park at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. I could see extrvagant gestures in the limbs as if the two were dancing a tango. inks on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inchesframed size 34x44cmprice £420

|Calke Abbey |Oak

Diversion: Dragons

Animals, Artwork, Card available, Collected (post), Colour, Drawing, Imagination, Ink, on paper, Painting, watercolour

Dragons have appeared in my work before – there have been stylized dragons in paint and print, and suggested dragons in tree drawings – but this side-project is a little bit different. It started with an art club challenge: a 6×6″ picture of a pet.…
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|Dragons

Relativity

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Ink, Monochrome, on paper, Place, Rural, Trees

This is a monochrome drawing of some of my favorite hornbeams on the edge of Sandlford Wood, near Newbury in Berkshire. It’s actually looking into the wood, from the adjoining field, without the fence that is present in reality. The title refers to the relative…
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|Hornbeam

Exuberant

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on paper, Painting, Place, Rural, Trees

Exuberant is a drawing in document ink using pen and ink wash. It uses the same inks as Procession (albeit with different techniques) and is on a slightly smaller sheet of paper (it is 50x70cm, 100% cotton watercolour paper). Like Procession, it was started before…
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|Ash |hedgerow

Procession

Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Ink, on paper, Place, Rural, Trees

Completed November 2024 Procession revisits the exposed roots of the trees at Folly Wood, near UrchFont in Wiltshire (see end of post for links to previous drawings). In fact, I revisited the location in the summer (2024) and took some fresh photographs. It was somewhat…
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|tree roots |Wiltshire

President’s Award

Award, Drawing, News, SOLD

I’m very excited to report that I won the President’s Award (selected by the president of the society, Dr. Susan Poole) at the Society of Graphic Fine Arts 104th Open Exhibition for Squeee! (above). The picture was sold at the Private View on Tuesday (11…
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|President's Award |SGFA

Tilt

Artwork, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on paper, Place, Rural, Trees

In which I return to my favourite set of wonky hornbeams, this time for a grand scale piece on paper, allowing for more of the slanted trees to be discerned down the line… I love the combined drama of these crazily angled trees, the organic…
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Piggy Wink

Animals, Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on paper, under £100

This young pig has a very knowing look in their eye. It’s probably because they knew that it was almost feeding time (seee Squeee!). Piggy Wink, Indian ink on paper, approx A4. Mounted to 12×16″ £85

|pig

Lean-to

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Drawing, Ink, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Trees

This is based on a photograph I took at Calke Abbey of some storm-damaged sweet chestnuts. They were significant entities and these are a couple of limbs that had parted company with the trunks. Someone came along and tried to make a den but I…
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|fallen trees |storm damage |sweet chestnut

Congregate

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Drawing, Ink, on paper, Place, Trees

This is my second version of this subject, a group of yews sprawled over the stones of Wakehurst Place’s rock walk; the first sold straight off the drawing board! This is a little bit smaller and a little bit looser than the first version, but…
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|Kew |Yew