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Sunsplash

Sunsplash

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

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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|Danebury |Hill fort
Claw

Claw

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

This was the last of my Open Studio drawings (which means that I was working on it in the studio while it was open) in May this year. It is based on a photograph taken in the holloway Mill Lane, a bridlepath near Hawkley in…
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|Exposed rock |holloway |sunken lane |tree roots
Quite Contrary

Quite Contrary

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

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row. The dainty plants that are “all in a row” in front of the main tree brought the quoted nursery rhyme to my mind and…
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|beech |Danebury |Hillfort |Hornbeam |roots |tree roots
Brewer’s Dray

Brewer’s Dray

 Animals, Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Horses, Ink, Mixed media, on paper, watercolour

When I went to Devizes to deliver my work to the White Chalk Gallery (Open Exhibition) I happened to be in the car park behind the Three Crowns, when Wadworth, a local brewery, were delivering their beer. This was only noteworthy because they were using…
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|brewery |Devizes |Draft horse |Shire horse |Wadworth |Wiltshire |working horse
Deep Green

Deep Green

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

Hungers Lane near Petworth is a sunken lane that was formerly the main road from Chichester to London. It was abandoned when Capability Brown remodelled Petworth Park along with the subsequent relocation of Tillington village in the 1750s and 60s. The National Trust, Where to…
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|holloway |Hunger Lane |Hungers Lane |moss |Petworth |sunken lane |The National Trust
Lichen Studies

Lichen Studies

 Artwork, Collected (post), Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Still Life, Trees

These are three small studies of lichen on a twiggy branch that I picked up in the New Forest recently. From left to right, they are Lichen 2 (horizontal), Lichen 3 (square), Lichen 1 (vertical). Lichen 1 was made on an Ampersand Scratchboard, Lichens 2…
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Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven

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

A natural staircase leading up from a sunken footpath. Drawn from my own photograph during Open Studios, May 2023. Ink on kaolin-coated board,14 x 11 inches

|holloway |sunken lane |tree roots
Shadow Dance – SOLD

Shadow Dance – SOLD

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

Elegantly curved, reaching to the sky, three living beeches and a dead tree seem to dance on the high ground to the side of a sunken lane. This is another scene from the wonderful sunken lane in Witley, Surrey. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12×16″ SOLD…
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|beech |holloway |sunken lane
Fortification

Fortification

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

This drawing revisits one of the specific subjects that got me started on this extended study of trees and their roots in ink. The beech woodland on the side of Danebury Hill partly occupies the outer rampart of an iron age hill fort, and ,…
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Echo

Echo

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

Two oak trees stand proud of the bracken, each bearing a nest box. These trees are in woodland on the edge of Greenham Common; I have drawn them from a different angle before (see Nestboxes). Ink on kaolin-coated board, 24 x 18″ Framed, black tray.

|nestbox |Oak

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