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.”
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Scholars’ rocks. ‘Elegant Friends for a Lofty Studio’.
Scholars Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain. Taihu limestone. MET Creative Commons Zero An MA trip in lockdown. To replace a planned physical trip to London the group voted to visit galleries virtually in another city. Shanghai was the city we chose. The brief was to find an artwork and respond to it throughContinue reading “Scholars’ rocks. ‘Elegant Friends for a Lofty Studio’.”
Fossils at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The UCA MA Fine Art group made a visit to Oxford this week. First port of call was the Museum of Natural History where I was bowled over by the vast collection of fossils. There was time to make drawings and have a really good look at the exhibits. What I found immediately striking wasContinue reading “Fossils at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.”