This is based on a fairly old photograph from 2018, albeit of a place I know well and visit often. There is a distinct blue cast in that photograph that I found attractive, but it was difficult to reconcile the blue-green of the trees with…
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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 a managed beechwood on the edge of parkland near Basingstoke, Hampshire. The drawing takes a different tack to most of my recent depictions of beech trees; instead of idiosyncratic convolutions or showy colours, here is a quiet, peaceful orderliness… Beechwood 16″ x 12″,…
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Savernake Forest near Marlborough in Wiltshire is a large, privately owned, area of ancient woodland that is open to the public 364 days of the year (the single annual day of closure allows the owners to retain the property). The forest car park is at the…
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