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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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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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
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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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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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.
I found this lovely sunken lane by chance, as described in my Multistorey post. This is a view from the road itself, in the opposite direction looking downhill towards the vantage point in Multistorey. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16″Framed, black tray.
This is based on Church Lane in Witley, near Godalming in Surrey. The road is a spectacular sunken lane or holloway that begins almost before it has left the substantial village. There is a footpath on the high ground to the left which also has…
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This is a “den” that stood in one of my local woods for what seems like (and probably was) years. I’m fairly sure that it got repaired more than once during the time I’ve known it, but it seems that Storm Eunice (in March 2022)…
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Multistorey is a drawing of Hartley Mauditt Lane in East Hampshire, from the vantage of a public footpath that runs alongside and above the sunken lane itself. The drawing is in Indian ink on a full Imperial size sheet of handmade Sunn Hemp paper. It…
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