January was made completely within its titular month, from snowy photograph to completed drawing. It took me longer to find a scene I wanted to represent the second month – I eventally settled on snowdrops in a sunken lane and made a start on the…
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These two drawings are both on full imperial (57 x 76cm) sheets of heavyweight watercolour paper, It’s handmade paper – as you can tell from the lovely deckled edge visible in my photograph of Mandrake – and somewhat rougher in texture than my usual choice.…
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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