Back to work on the Way of the Gull

                    

           
                        

All four pieces are assembled, now the only problem is how to finish them off. Are they finished?

Landmarks, Berry Banks and Hagg Wood, in the exhibition at Holmfirth Art Week

Wandering through the bluebells along Berry Banks,

 later in the year there'll be blackberries and bilberries for the picking.

      

Dappled sunlight by the river, bright new leaves campion, 

rowan tree in flower, last year's beech mast crunching underfoot.

Landmarks and Edgelands

My current projects Landmarks and Edgelands are exploring the landscape from different perspectives.  Landmarks, working from maps and local knowledge, is looking at place names that relate to the land and its features, Reynards, Hagg, Berry and Ramsden currently in my sketchbook. Edgelands is investigating abandoned sites along the River Holme that were once 'hives' of industry now abandoned for nature to recapture, havens for wildlife unlike much of the adjoining farm land.
The Edgelands project will hopefully be exhibited with Lateral in their Transitions exhibition in 2016.

Highline celebrating 50 years of the Pennine Way

the South Square exhibition closes at the end of the week

Where I Wander Berry Banks

research for a piece called Berry Banks brambles bilberries sunshine bumble bees bird song, just now dappled shade and blue bells

Where I wander

Back to the old themes, Ramsden Clough, Hagg Wood and Berry Banks.  Places that I habitually visit.

Orkney

progressing slowly, another week perhaps, and it will be off the loom