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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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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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
Some of the extensive branches of an oak tree growing at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. The tree itself bears a plaque, screwed to its trunk, “In loving memory… ” There is a name, and dates indicating that the gentleman in question died in 1984 at the…
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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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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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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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This is based on a photograph that I took on a walk in east Hampshire which included two bridleways called Standfast Lane and Mill Lane. I can’t remember which lane I took the photograph on , but it doesn’t really matter because Standfast is a…
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