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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts

10/04/2011

30/01/2011

Same view, different times

Well, same-ish view, Kommetjie beach from a particular bench on the boardwalk for the last three, and actually on the beach in the first spread. I've always loved the almost-repetition of the almost-the-same. It's the underlying minimalism of my not very minimalist work...


Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.



Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral-bound sketchbook.



27/01/2011

Landscape: Kommetjie

At this rate it will take me a month to scan in the sketchbook drawings I made in South Africa, but never mind!
Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral bound pad.



12/01/2011

Karoo Stopover: the food chain

Beautiful, isolated spot, fantastic hospitality and food, and one of the other guests was someone I met over twenty years ago and have not seen since. When I saw the newly born calves, I did have to try and forget the sign I'd seen pointing to the farm's abattoir.







20/12/2010

In the bleak midwinter

... though from just before things totally froze up! Just testing the paper of a spiral bound sketchbook to take to away with me (if I ever get on a plane) to see if it takes watercolour without too much curling (the verdict is so-so, but too bad!)
Brush markers and watercolour wash in Windsor and Newton spiral bound A4 sketchbook.