I have a large scale work in progress – a 7 metre long drawing using the line of beech trees that borders Byway 745. I’m in the planning stages of further work on this drawing, considering the various options for weaving imagery of the litter I’ve been collecting from the track beneath the line ofContinue reading “Weaving in the litter”
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Drawings, photographs and litter.
Drawing from observation is part of my art practice. This is undertaken in the landscape as well as in the studio. Drawings are made from natural forms and from the found objects that appear in my three dimensional work. I am currently experimenting with ways of reconciling this 2D part of my practice with theContinue reading “Drawings, photographs and litter.”
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.”
Byway 745 Observatory.
Byway 745 Observatory with direct drawing. I have recently started making daily drawings on a 10 metre section of Byway 745, deciding to home in on, rather than pass through, the space. To establish a kind of “observatory” examining the whole space from the trees at the top of the banks down into the chalkContinue reading “Byway 745 Observatory.”
Liz Clifford 