Gorse bushes after one of the heath fires last year.

Gloss and graphite under layer with Matt and gloss water soluble oil top layer. Rather like a daguerreotype this work changes as the light hits the surface. Swirling burnt bushes, they were burnt in a heath fire. This is shortly after the fire before any regrowth of vegetation had begun.

Drawings over Cyanotype of stone objects, the direction of the sun and the time of day change the shape caste by the objects. I chose morning sun in the east with elongating effect on my print. Here you see a more pointed shape, a window into the distant past maybe.

Fragments of things, made on the heath. I particularly like gorse and bracken, spikey and jagged.

Upside down painting, still working on this painting. Water soluble oil on canvas with a bit of beeswax and some other medium.

It’s upside because I was working on it this way up and I’m leaving it this way while it dries, for a while anyway.

More layers and textures, the pool of water, the burnt tree, muddy tracks.

The pool of water, a portal to another realm, soft reflections.

Wanderings across the Heath where linear time collapses. Fragments of the distant past scattered across the surface of churned earth. Portals, deep time, calls to me.

World war 1 tank in Reims. Still remaining in the 1930s. Destroyed completely during WW2.

Burnt gorse bush with graphite and gorse charcoal. I picked up a bit of the gorse charcoal that was lying on the ground. It gives a soft black against a silvery grey of the graphite.