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Overhang – SOLD

Overhang – SOLD

 Artwork, Card available, Drawing, Featured, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, SOLD, Trees

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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|Ash |Hampshire |Lime |monochrome |Rocks
Bindings – SOLD

Bindings – SOLD

 Artwork, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, 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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|Ash |Kingsclere
Underash – SOLD

Underash – SOLD

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

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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|Ash |Hampshire |holloway |Kingsclere |sunken lane
Níðhǫggr (Nidhogg) – SOLD

Níðhǫggr (Nidhogg) – SOLD

 Artwork, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, 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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|Ash |mythology |Norse

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