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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I made this piece as a rolling demo during Hampshire Open Studios at Sherborne St John, 25-28 August 2023. It is a drawing of part of a grown-out hedge on a low woodbank, looking out of the wood to a wintery field. Every time that…
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Ash trees on the steep slope adjacent to a sunken bridlepath that descends from our local chalk ridge. This may be a less dramatic holloway than the chalk-faced thoroughfares in parts of east Hampshire (and elsewhere), but it’s still striking and rather lovely. I wanted…
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This was a particularly pleasing collection of shapes that I noticed in the tree that I drew for High and Dry. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16″
This is one of High and Dry‘s roots. Root Cellar, ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x 16 inches / 34x44x3cm framed
There is a byway open to all traffic, or BOAT, near Alton called Water Lane. It is, for much of its length, a sunken lane or holloway – that is, a route lower than the surrounding land surface. Holloways can be created by the passage…
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A woodbank is a linear boundary around or within a wood, marked by a low earthen bank. It’s a feature often associated with ancient woodland, and it’s not uncommon to find trees growing on it. These two trees, an ash and a silver birch, are…
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Like many trees growing on the steep cliffs and banks of the sunken road, this ash has extended its root system sideways. The sturdiness of those roots and the way that they disappear into fissures in the bedrock is remarkable and tells of adaptability and…
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This multimasted grown-out hedge looms above a sunken road from its farmyard setting. Someone has added a car tyre, and to my eye this is a porthole to the tree’s dream: to sail the high seas! Galleon Indian ink on kaolin-coated board, 16″ x 12″…
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This wonderful ash may once have been part of a hedge along the side of the holloway, or sunken road. The tree has grown significantly out of the hedge line, and one of its boughs stretches across the path, such that walkers must duck under…
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