“Incoming Tide, Rock Pool 3″
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm.
A cleft between split boulder and sea smoothed bedrock admits the action of a gentle influx of tidal waters. The shadows allow the scene to be, protected from being exposed to the full force of the blistering light beyond.
Status – Available
Price – £495
“Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 2″
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm
The same subject and a similar scene to the last post, but with a very different feel. The framing effect of the hedges leads via the central “path” of clear, sky reflected water to the open perspective of the sunlit fields beyond. This composition has a much more pastoral effect.
Status – SOLD
“Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 1″
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400.
A heavy rain fall has flooded the lane leaving navigation limited to sparse islands of tussocky grass and just a few inches of cambered mud beside the hedges. The strongly lit tree trunks and their reflections are framed by the surrounding foliage. This tousled by the recent downpour is yet softened by the sunlight, creating a halo-like effect, a portal to other realms. After all I am told by the locals the land known as “Egypt” lies just beyond the next hill.
Status – SOLD
“Curragh, Ballaugh Curragh”
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm
You can feel the modern world sloth away upon entering Ballaugh Curraghs wetlands. Here the softly ruffled reflections have a fascination, a casting of the sky against the depths. This then, as if not enough combines with the shallow perspectives to evoke a truly magical, primordial atmosphere.
Status – Available
Price – £450
“Cliff Top Trees, Glen Maye”
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm.
Descending into the atmosphere of Glen Maye and looking up at the light blissfully burning away the solidity of the trees, then filtering through the filigree of foliage, finishing with the cliff face all shaggy ferns and ivy.
Status – SOLD
“Cliff Edge, Seascape”
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm
The flattened almost aerial perspective gives a banded abstract feel to the composition. The top “stripe” of dark unbroken sea, let into the white water by a tail of submerged rocks in their turn lead to the unseen cliff base below. A patch of light picks out the stunted heather trim of the slabbed cliff edge.
Status – Available
Price – £595
“Burnt Gorse, Seascape’
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm.
Vertiginously overlooking a rocky bay awash with white water, a tangle of blackened gorse stumps emerge from the weather bleached grass of the cliff top. The distant point of black rocks veiled in a dazzle of sunlit spray.
Status – SOLD
“Bridge After Heavy Rain, Ballaglass Glen”
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm.
The bridge at the top of Ballaglass Glen over which the Manx Electric Railway trams traverse. Ivy tendrils hanging to one side of the velvet black of the tunnel entrance, whilst white water pours fourth amidst moss clad boulders.Those gallons of water barely contained by the imprinted bevelled edge of the plate.
Status – Available
Price – £495
“Festooned Tree, Bishops Court Glen”
Monotype 1/1. Image size 400×400mm.
A dramatic, uncompromising composition. A bold contrast is set up by the ivy festooned fan shape of the deciduous tree peeking out from behind the trunk of the evergreen dominating the foreground. Strength and shimmer.
Status – SOLD
A stack of four views in the main exhibition space of my show at the Sayle gallery. This is the last week to see the work, so be sure to visit before closing time on Sunday
Exhibition details:-
ORIGINALS Print Exhibition 1st – 24th May 2009.
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Sun 1:30pm-4:30pm
Sayle Gallery, Villa Marina Colonnade, Douglas. IM1 2HN
Tel- 01624 674557 Email- saylegallery@manx.net