Landscape Series (16x9)

These pieces are based on the 16x9 proportion in landscape format. With this proportion the relationship between the length and height is not one half, so, in my construction of the geometry, I have added a single unit height rectangle at the bottom of each composition in an appropriate colour. This provides the ability to use vertical symmetry.

The colour of this block of is carefully chosen and effectively underlines the construction.

Tree Tangle

The camera penetrates the tangle of branches before the leaves get their chance. The willow and the dogwood; common in the parks blends the subdued colours of the season’s boundary. The buds and new shoots are just appearing in amongst the random weavings of the branches and with a wide aperture we can blur the palette.

Sky Trees Reflex

Look up to the trees bare in the Winter sky. Look down in the cold waters we see the branches rippled in the surface, reflecting colours of the sky - mixed in with the watercolour. I balance and then unbalance the 2 sides of this rectangle; my arc joins and leaps across the shapes; the curve contains the branches that silhouette against the clouds in the sky cerulean.

Beach Stones on the Street

Merton street sett stones caught my eye. I wonder if these came from Chessel Beach. I wondered about this before but now I am collecting the images for my collages using in the geometry - this time rotated sectors of a circle.

Wood Rings

In the forest some trees are harvested, piled safely and revealing their aged rings. We count the rings to estimate their age and notice that some rings are wide and others narrow. Nearby, a sapling oak is only just learning how to drop last year’s brown and brittle leaves curled by the recent frosts.

Wild River Sweep

The winter river is in full flood and the weirs are controlling the torrents as the turbulent waters scour out the sediments. The river is wild and dangerous with fast currents and a surface that mixes the whites of the foam with the greens and greys of the cold winter Thames.

River Surface Reflections

As we travel the river, the edges touch the surface and reveal the colours of the growing forms some in the shadows; others spreading their branches towards the light.

River Surface

Travelling the river with views of light and dark water. Ahead of us the sun catches the ripples; waves behind, grow and recede.

Sun Turner

A walk through the village where sun is planted in the gardens, to meadows of ragwort and bitter dock. Sky colours the backdrop to the yellows, ochres and dusky browns. Petals repeat out from orange buttons.

Dry Ground with Feather

Walking on hard ground. No sign of rain. Sunburn on the path where plants show their roots. Some green growth in the deep cracks, a feather flutters down.

Meadow Hill

Sweeping from sky to land, the hill of meadow flowers meets the blue of sky. Up the walk with rest for breath and closer look, down the view meets the green of trees.

River Edged and Bridged

Reeds border the dark bridged river. Willow herb sprinkles the colour for contrast as we sweep past.

Wheat Sweep

Pathways through the colours of farmed fields. Crops are textures of swaying grasses. The air is dusted with scents of earlier planting.

Wet and Dry Shore

Dry stones become wet stones in the shallows shore. Slate and sand weathered smooth by the tide that sweeps over the beach.

Shore Shallows

The sea shore pebbles and the lapping water. Capturing colours and textures for the curved form. Added structural elements; repositories for the image details and colours that are alluring in the moment.

Fields Unfolding

The wind sweeps over the wheat field showing itself as it strokes the heads. Walking over the clumpy grasses and remembering the stoney ground.

Sweeping Grasses

The wild meadow by the river. The sweeping mixtures of grass meeting the reeds at the waters’ edge. Dark shades mix in with the multitude of greens.

Gold Gorse

The sky unfolds to the covering sun. Opening yellows and garden blooms with musty gorse puffed up gold.

Clover Skies

Buttercups cross the fields in yellow shoes. In the hedge, the clover pinkness dots the green. Skies are bright blue arcing through the trees just over there.

Ranunculus

Butter yellow shining through blades of green. Eyes down to the flat field feet following. Short grass yet, the buttercups will go.

Surface Reed

Pads float over surface drawn with lines of reeds. The curving sweep of water grasses light against the drifting deeps. Shapes of colour align with clips of views. Colours chosen to capture the structure.

Petals Wild

Forest Floor
Wood Campion
Wild Sorrel

Flow Leaf Hexagon

Tangled leaves show through the shapes and structures. Flowers of white and colour highlight the shadows. The shapes are asymmetric in the image with outlines and alignment.

Spring Green

Short grasses overlaid with shapes of green. Look at these veins in the leaf cropped into the hexagon. The shapes anchor to the centre with balanced structure and shades of green.

River Sweep

Pebbles Gather
Swift River
Rippled Flows

Calm River Reflex

Across the river clouds reflect with shapes of water lapping in triangles. Banks of last years’ colour with symmetry and transparency overlaid colours of the rippled water and lost greens.

Rivers Edge

Sky Trees
Liquid Blue
Edged Water

Mud Tracked

Wet Track
Mud Reflects
Sky Forest

SkyTree

Sky tree
Triangle Over
Shape eight

MoorBlues

Moor Rush
Reed Wave
Water Blue

Forestagon

Bracken brown on the forest floor with last years leaves crunching on the walking ground. Slim tree bark parallel to my verticals with shifted hexagon aligned to transparent structure. New season green just seen through the past year.