Archive for February, 2010

Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 2

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

“Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 2”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm

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 2

Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 1

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

“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

Flooded Lane, East Baldwin 1

Curragh, Ballaugh

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Curragh, Ballaugh Curragh”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm

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 – £550

Curraugh, Ballaugh Curraughs

Cliff Top trees, Glen Maye

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Cliff Top Trees, Glen Maye”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm.

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 Top Trees, Glen Maye

Cliff Edge, Seascape

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Cliff Edge, Seascape”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm

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

Status – SOLD

Cliff Edge, Seascape

Burnt Gorse, Seascape

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Burnt Gorse, Seascape’

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm.

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

Burnt Gorse, Seascape

Bridge After Heavy Rain

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Bridge After Heavy Rain, Ballaglass Glen”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm.

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

Status – SOLD

Bridge After Heavy Rain, Ballaglass

Festooned Tree, Bishops Court Glen

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

“Festooned Tree, Bishops Court Glen”

Monotype 1/1. Image size 400x400mm.

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

Festooned Tree, Bishops Court Glen