Trees – Page 2 – Amanda Bates art

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″

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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Tumbledown (Brook Vessons)

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

Brook Vessons was a mining village in Shropshire. Situated on a hillside by the Stiper Stones, it must have made for a remote and, at times, bleak place to live. And then the mine closed. The village was abandoned in th eearly twentieth century. This…
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|Brook Vessons |Shropshire

Wood Garlic

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

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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|Flowers |woodland

Untrodden Path

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

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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|Ladle Hill |sunken lane

Precipice – SOLD

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

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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|Bradgate |Bradgate Park

Elder Statesmen

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

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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The Bluebells Were Almost Over

Artwork, AVAILABLE, Colour, Oil, on canvas, Painting, Place, Rural, Trees, under £100

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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Interwoven

Artwork, Colour, Drawing, Exhibition, Ink, on paper, Open Studios, Ruins, Rural, Trees

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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|Avebury |beech |exposed tree roots |Wiltshire

Elevation

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

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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