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Tentacular – SOLD

Tentacular – SOLD

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

Tenacious holly, with its smooth, pale bark, is a great tree for growing interesting shapes; I can see several fantastic beasts in the roots of this tree. But the overall shape puts me in mind of a tentacled sea monster, floating in a sea of…
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|Exposed roots |Holly |sunken lane |sunken road
Lateral

Lateral

 Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

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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|Ash |Exposed roots |sunken road
Firmament

Firmament

 Artwork, AVAILABLE, Drawing, Featured, Ink, Monochrome, on kaolin-coated board, Place, Rural, Trees

A narrow, single track road, lower than the fields it travels through, has steep, cliff-like sides, taller than a car, taller than a person. In many places, the pale, chalky bedrock is exposed. Trees grow atop these sides and their roots either delve through fissures…
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|Exposed roots |sunken lane

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