I’ve recently had the opportunity to bring a piece of work together that has been in gestation for nearly two and a half years. In May 2020, in Covid lockdown, I noticed beech seedlings growing in the mud of a rural track normally driven on by off-roaders. Knowing that the vehicles would soon be backContinue reading “On Thin Soil”
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Among the Beech Roots.
Over the past month I have been completing a large scale drawing project started in Autumn 2020 from studies made in the landscape of the line of beech trees bordering Byway 745 and the litter collected from beneath them. The drawing measures 150 x 700 cm and had to be worked on in sections onContinue reading “Among the Beech Roots.”
Being in the landscape.
I have recently been in, been-with, the landscape through the experience of working on this series of drawings, on location, beneath the remains of a once-laid beech hedge. That laid hedge, now grown out, its stock-proof boundary-making function replaced with wire fencing, is a marker between public and private land. I place myself in theContinue reading “Being in the landscape.”
Liz Clifford 