LANDSCAPE, SEASCAPE and
WINDOW views.
Out walking on the land and by the sea. And the views from train windows.
Rocks on posts on South Downs.Pencil drawing of the South Downs looking out to sea and the Rampion wind farm. 2024.Fields on a murky day.Out walking in mixed media collage.Patterns and a thistle with a pilot ink pen.Oil pastel and paint and ink on a path.The landscape changes and bushes can get up-rooted so this one is saved with a pencil sketch.A feeding cage for cattle on top of the downs.The landscape is alive with all kinds of things going on.Weathered wooden posts on top of the hill.Land and sea converge in the summer.Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. Off the Sussex coast, near Brighton. 27.8 square miles of it.
I’ve over exaggerated the number of pipes going under the sea.
Rocks/figures in the land.Out walking with the cows and the common wood pigeon.COVID 19. We didn’t have to social distance out walking. The country side was a haven during the pandemic, and that spring of 2020 the sky was a permanent blue.Hedges get cut in winter. Biro.A piece of rock.Top of the South Downs looking out to sea with agricultural machinery.Somwhere out there.Cut right down ready for new growth. Pilot pen.Mixed media of lively thistles.Walking up a hill with gouache.A quick watercolour of a bare field.Preliminary sketch for something.Near dusk in the summer.Hot Summer day.At night.A disused farm tank and an old post. Paint and collage.Landscape at night.Shadows in the summer.On the way.Moonlight on the land.Hot summer of 2022.Summer colour out there....Mid-summer.A field with winter trees. Paint.Bare shapes.Field with a line of trees.A busy field coming out of winter.Same field at dusk.Three seed pods.A Peter Lanyon style seascape.Seaweed, sea, sky.Sea view.Watercolour shore.Watercolour collage of the beach.Paint sketch of pebbles.Cliffs and steps. Gouache and ink.Chalk in the sand.Chalk in the sea.Patterns.A quiet walk.Rocks and beach balls.Under the sand.Rocks on the horizon.Stormy seas. Paint and collage.A busy beach. Paint, colour pencil, collage.Storm brewing.Shipwreck. Paint and collage.‘Cloudspotting for Beginners’ by Gavin-Pretor-Pinney and William Grill. Found this book in a magazine and did my own versions of the illustrations. Next three drawings are in colour pencils.Cumulonimbus.Nimbostratus.WIEWS FROM WINDOWS :
Keepng to the speed limit.
Along the road.Fast journey.
Plane trees in Hyde Park, London. Biro.Industrial buildings. Watercolour.Between the buffers. Colour pencils.GWR in the West Country landscape.Hay bales along the train track. Paint and collage.From the car.Day trip to the start with dad.Sky at night.Train stopped at a deralict house. Pencil and paint.Agricultural machines busy working in the late summer fields. Paint and collage.September skies at a station.At the side of the tracks.Train tracks. Collage.Collage of fields.In the distance.Paint sketch of Rachel Whiteread’s ‘House’. from a bus.Buffers: Paint and pencil.Train depot.Journey through the night. Oil pastel and paint.Lots of these along the train tracks.Approaching the terminus.Roads over bridges.Now on to a few flags. These are maritime distress signals.Stile like a flag 3....Stile like a flag 2.Stile like a flag 1.Old Rose 3.Old Rose 1.Old Rose 2.