There’s something very dramatic about viewing something “against the light”, or from the shadow side with light seeping around the edges. And I rather like dramatic. This is another scene from Church Lane, in Witley, Surrey. The lane is less sunken here, near the top…
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Once I had decided on the title of The Low Road, it was inevitable that I was going to make a companion piece based on the “high road” above it. This is facing towards Witley; the first drawing faces the opposite direction but is closer…
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Like Knave, Knoll is a section of the sunken part of Church Lane in Witley, Surrey. Ink on kaolin-coated board, 16 x 12″
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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The Ankerwycke Yew is, according to tradition, the tree beneath which King John signed the Magna Carta. It certainly could have been – it is old enough and in the right sort of place – but we may never know for sure. It’s a very…
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This is a real tree. It’s an ancient yew tree (somewhere between 1,500 and 4,000 years old) in the village churchyard of Crowhurst, Surrey. The tree, even by the most conservative estimate of its age, is older than records of the church or of the…
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Yew trees are quite odd trees. They evolved earlier than most of the other familiar British trees – oaks or beeches, say – which suggests that their oddities may be ancient traits that other, more modern trees, didn’t need: aerial roots, branches that take root,…
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I’m very pleased to say that I will be at the Surrey Contemporary Art Fair in Esher next month. I will be on stand 84, which I am sharing with Kristin Rawcliffe, a fabulous artist whose recent solo exhibition in London featured dynamic portraits of…
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