Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing some small lichen drawings (or illustrations perhaps), 15cm x 15cm, all ink pen on paper, on pages in a sketchbook... adapted (and distorted) from some cropped and enlarged photographs... lichenscapes...
A style of drawing inspired in part by the histology illustrations in biology textbooks, which I find fascinating...
Here are some of my lichen photographs, taken on a crisp and clear morning a couple of weekends back, visiting three churchyards in the search for interesting lichens [a new species of lichen was apparently discovered at one of them]...
...I read online (although I've since lost the link to it) that churchyard lichens are sometimes as old as the gravestones on which they silently inhabit... could there ever be a more unintentionally beautiful way of signifying a life after death...?
another waterlog
more heavy rain this weekend... the rain pelted down, the river swelled, the meadows and fields flooded, the trees and grasses swam for their lives...
spring has finally sprung, but it's looking for all the world, just like a drowned world...
farmscape painting
One of my farmscapes, farmed and now framed...
[farmscape I, mixed media on canvas, 60cm x 120cm]There is a reference to landscape in colour and format, a modulation of stripes hint at the structures of agriculture - a farm (buildings) and its landscape (fields) distilled into one work, when viewed in both the horizontal and the vertical... here are a couple of images showing some textural surface details...
This prompted me to sift through a few of my journal's farmyard and field photographs, to illustrate further...
...and the striations live on, long after the painting has ceased... I have been keeping all of the masking tape discards...
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