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The Trees

More entries on 'The Trees'
Writing Shadows

Writing Shadows

On Tuesday I made my way to Shotover to work on a piece I've been thinking about for quite some time. The piece, about absent-presence, will, eventually, comprise videos of shadows in a wood, a few stills from which can ...
Latest Tree Drawings

Latest Tree Drawings

I've been working on a series of drawings for a while now, the development of which can be seen in the pictures below ...
trees01

Somewhere Between Writing and Trees II

More work using the iPad Pro and pencil ...
Somewhere Between Writing and Trees

Somewhere Between Writing and Trees

Having recently bought and iPad Pro and pencil, I decided to start drawing in a style inspired to some extent by my son's drawings and by my recent visit to Shotover wood, and, I have to say, I was pleased with ...
Mondrian's Trees

Mondrian’s Trees

This weekend, I was drawing with my children. Eliot was drawing in his usual style... ...and as I watched, I took up my felt-tip pen and began to draw. Having drawn my lines, I began to do what I used to ...
Trees Triptych No.2

Trees Triptych No.2

Another triptych comprising photographs taken on Sunday at Shotover ...
Trees Triptych

Trees Triptych

A triptych comprising photographs taken at Shotover on Sunday ...
A Walk in Shotover Wood

A Walk in Shotover Wood

On what was a beautiful Autumn day, I took a walk to Shotover wood to take some photos of trees. I've always loved Shotover, both for its place in my past and that of my family, and its own history, ...
Trees and Other Projects

Trees and Other Projects

I have been photographing the same trees - shown above - for almost 18 months now, and what started as a simple photographic record of a particular set of trees has since morphed into a project which shares certain aspects ...
Two Worlds

Two Worlds

I was thinking about the post World War I landscape and how the years after 1918 saw a surge in spiritualism with grieving parents, wives and children seeking solace in the idea of their loved ones' continued existence on 'the ...
The Smell of an English Summer 1916 (Fresh Cut Grass)

Proposing Moments of Pastoral

Through my research on World War I, I've accumulated a large amount of data - postcards, quotes, maps, texts, photographs, personal thoughts and experiences - which I want to start distilling into a new body of work. To do that, ...
The Past in Pastoral

The Past in Pastoral

July 1st 2016 will mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous Somme offensive. Having already made a lot of work about World War I, I want to mark this anniversary with some new pieces, working around the theme of 'shared ...
The Lawn and the Woods

The Lawn and the Woods

I remember as a small boy how my Nana would on occasion take me and my older brother to where she worked as a Housekeeper. The house was - at far as I recall - a big, white, Modernist building ...
Silence in the Woods

Silence in the Woods

I've discussed previously, three extracts from newspapers in which a moment of silence serves to amplify all that happened before and after. To recap, those three extracts were [my italics in all]:"On Sunday last, at the close of the evening ...
Silence as Other

Silence as Other

The past is silent. To know the past, one must know silence. The theme of silence has come up a lot in my work, something I've written about before (see Augmenting Silence), and it was whilst re-reading a blog on Chinese painting ...
The Gesture of Mourning

The Gesture of Mourning

Graveyards and cemeteries have always fascinated me. The feeling I have when entering them, is much the same as when I enter a museum, a sense of calm mixed with expectation as I wonder whose story or stories I'll encounter ...
The First Line?

The First Line?

Reading Clive James' Poetry Notebook, I find myself a little better prepared to tackle the task of writing a poem; something I've wanted to do since the start of the New Year. I've made attempts in the past which I ...
Proxies

Proxies

Following on from my last entry I've been wondering whether an empathetic link between ourselves and those who fought and died in the First World War can - based on Paul Fussel's quote regarding "moments of pastoral" ("if the opposite ...
Chinese Landscape Painting

Chinese Landscape Painting

I've never before considered myself a fan of Chinese art but there have been times (most recently in the British Museum) when I've been overawed by a particular work. I refer in particular to early (11th-14th century) landscapes which move ...
Lamenting Trees

Lamenting Trees

'Ghastly by day, ghostly by night, the rottenest place on the Somme'. Such was how soldiers described High Wood, one of the many that peppered the battlefields of Flanders and France. Woods in name only, these once dense places were ...
War and The Pastoral Landscape

War and The Pastoral Landscape

I've been thinking these last few weeks about a new body of work based on the First World War. For a long time - as will be evident from my blog - I've been looking at ways of using the ...
Goethean Observation: Compost Heap

Goethean Observation: Compost Heap

The compost heap is some eight feet in circumference and about three feet high at its highest point. It comprises many different types of vegetative matter, at a glance; apples, the branches of the Christmas tree, twigs, cut-down shrubs, leaves ...
Absence

Absence

In the Tenth Elegy of Rilke's Duino Elegies we read:'...Our ancestorsworked the mines, up there in the mountain range.Among men, sometimes you still find polished lumpsof original grief or - erupted from an ancient volcano -a petrified clinker of rage ...
Paul Nash Quote

Paul Nash Quote

"Here in the back garden of the trenches it is amazingly beautiful - the mud is dried to a pinky colour and upon the parapet, and through sandbags even, the green grass pushes up and waves in the breeze, while ...
World War 1 Serviceman

The Keening Landscape

I sometimes think of these images as pieces of theatre. There's the stage on which a man stands wearing his costume. He leans on a prop - a chair, the scenery hanging behind him; a pastoral scene with trees and ...
Quotes from 'Trees'

Quotes from ‘Trees’

Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists away from their everyday lives. Woodland is the gateway to a parallel reality of the underworld, but it is also ...
Trees

Trees

In his book, Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization, archaeologist Richard Hayman writes:"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists away from their everyday lives. Woodland is the gateway to a parallel reality of the underworld, ...
A Backdrop to Eternity

A Backdrop to Eternity

Below is a typical, early 20th century studio portrait. The subject - a boy - sits on a prop. Behind him hangs a backdrop on which is painted an idealised scene - something like the view of a country estate ...
Redshift

Redshift

Anyone who has stood on the edge of the Lochnagar crater at La Boiselle in France, cannot help but be overawed by its vast size. The result of a huge mine, detonated below ground at 7:28am on 1st July 1916 ...
WWI Portraits: Inside, Outside

WWI Portraits: Inside, Outside

Below are two portraits, each of a soldier about to leave home to fight in what we now know as the Great War.I'm interested in these two particular pictures because they reveal how differences in their immediate surroundings affect out ...

The Gone Forest

Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see ‘Writing Shadows’) and finally, this weekend, I had the chance to edit the clips together to make a piece entitled ‘The Gone Forest’. The piece is something viewers can dip in and out of rather than sit through from beginning to end, and while it is a finished piece, there are lots of other ways I want to explore using these clips.

For now, here is the video:

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