Twenty four minutes in Ashdown Forest

19 July 2020

From Friends Clump: Twelve two-minute drawings in pencil and oil pastel. Apart from last week's garden studies, these are first drawings that I have done outside since lockdown started, about forty years ago.












Tithonia 2

17 July 2020


small pockets of uneven spaces, travelling in, through, and under


like sandpaper to touch


hovering frilled shelves


like pleated skirts, tapered and horizontal


velvety poles pushing upwards


paper thin and fuzzy

Tithonia 1

Marks in response to phrases by Emily Ball.

paper thin and fuzzy

velvety poles pushing upwards

like pleated skirts, tapered and horizontal

hovering frilled shelves

like sandpaper to touch

small pockets of uneven spaces, travelling in, through, and under

Collection and collage

16 July 2020


A collection of marks.

Then torn, collaged, reworked, and extended.


Marks in conversation II

Distilling yet expanding the shapes and marks from the conversations.

Garden studies, colour

12 July 2020

Ink on paper.



Garden studies, edited

Applied more marks, paint, pastel, chalk, and collaged papers, Editing things in and out.




Sound study

Marks in the garden, responding to the sounds.