Place – 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

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

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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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

Branching Out

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Rural, Trees

Some of the extensive branches of an oak tree growing at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. The tree itself bears a plaque, screwed to its trunk, “In loving memory… ” There is a name, and dates indicating that the gentleman in question died in 1984 at the…
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|Derbyshire |Oak

Tangle

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

A tangle of roots help this veteran Hawthorn cling to the hillside. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 18 x 24″

|Hampshire |Hawthorn

Embankment Revisited

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

This was done from new photographs, but I have worked with this view before in ink (2019) and in oil (2018). It’s at Danebury Hill near Andover, Hampshire ; there is a splendid hillfort there and this is looking along the outer embanked fortification ring.…
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