Standing Vigil – SOLD
16″ x 12″, ink on kaolin-coated board See https://www.amandabatesart.co.uk/2021/03/society-of-graphic-fine-art-open-exhibition/
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Greensand – SOLD
16″ x 12″, Indian ink on kaolin-coated board See https://www.amandabatesart.co.uk/2021/03/society-of-graphic-fine-art-open-exhibition/
Epic – SOLD
Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16″ Ostensibly a picture of mature beech trees on a embankment within a wood, anthropomorphism imbues the trees with emotion and character. They could well be on stage, enacting a Shakespeare tragedy or performing Wagner – or they…
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Vortex -SOLD
I love the twist that sweet chestnut develops as it grows: an elegant russet swirl of a tree, here set off beautifully by the cool lines of its silver birch partner. This is a picture that couldn’t not be made: colour and form and movement…
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Catch Me if I Fall – SOLD
Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 16″ x 12″ Hornbeams in Sandleford Wood, Greenham Common.
Overhang – SOLD
Overhang was worked up using photographs that I took a couple of years ago near the hamlet of Empshott Green in Hampshire. It’s a small place, accessed by small, steep roads set into pale, friable cliff faces of malm rock. These cliffs, riven with tree…
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Bindings – SOLD
Almost directly opposite the tree featured in Underash is another mature ash tree whose roots stand proud of the ground. It’s not so high up, but it is a very interesting shape, with thick stems of ivy twisting around it and exposed flints in the…
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Underash – SOLD
One of the blessings of lockdown was the necessity of restricting my explorations to the local area. It seemed as if the whole village and its dog were heading out along the more obvious paths into the (rather lovely) local hills, and so I went…
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Nest Boxes – SOLD
Greenham Common has a variety of habitats, notably a large expanse of heathland with ground-nesting birds, lizards and rare orchids. There are also the fenced-off bunkers (once home, at disparate times, to American Cruise missiles and the D’Qar resistance in Star Wars), a business park…
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Níðhǫggr (Nidhogg) – SOLD
Níðhǫggr is the dragon that gnaws at the root of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, in Norse mythology. One of the suspended roots of this ash looked, from this angle, a bit like a dragon. The dragon seemed to be munching on the base of the…
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