Olive trees are great – when they get old they become wonderfully gnarly, and they produce olives, which are good to eat – but you don’t find many growing in the woods around here. They are neither native nor naturalised in Britain, but they can…
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Once I had decided on the title of The Low Road, it was inevitable that I was going to make a companion piece based on the “high road” above it. This is facing towards Witley; the first drawing faces the opposite direction but is closer…
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This fantastic sunken lane has provided me with subjects for several drawings since I first visited it in January of this year. Knave, Knoll, Shadow Dance, and now The Low Road, are all set on Church Lane in Witley near Godalming, Surrey. This, however, is…
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This is part of the sheer side of a track leading from Huckers Lane (in Selborne, Hampshire) to a field gate. Immediately above Huckers Cottage is an outcrop of the Greensand, a small scarp, the southern end of the quarry dug out of Church Meadow.…
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I was passing through the New Forest earlier this year, on my way home from delivering work to an open exhibition, and I decided to stop at Forsey Gardens. It was a hot day and the gardens, pleasant though they are, provided relatively little relief…
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I made this piece as a rolling demo during Hampshire Open Studios at Sherborne St John, 25-28 August 2023. It is a drawing of part of a grown-out hedge on a low woodbank, looking out of the wood to a wintery field. Every time that…
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This is from Hungers Lane near Petworth in Sussex – the same path featured in Deep Green. The sides are not as steep here. The bluebells were barely out but they still made a cheery impression on me. The trees include a cherry, some field…
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Morgaston Wood is part of The Vyne estate, a National Trust property near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. It is open to the public and seems to get a lot of dog walkers. The wood itself seems to consist largely of sweet chestnut trees, a handsome, non-native…
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Hornbeams in Hainault Forest. I had time to kill in London, so I took the opportunity to ride the tube to the outer limits of the city (to the north and east, furthest from where I live in Hampshire) and visit a suburban forest. Hainault,…
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This tree is on the bank surrounding the upper car park at Danebury Hill (between Andover and Stockbridge in Hampshire, England). The hill is the site of a large and magificent prehistoric hillfort, but I rather suspect that these earthworks are more recent. 12″ x…
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