sunken road – Amanda Bates art

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

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