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NEW PICTURES - Gallery 1
This is a collection of twelve pictures, that have evolved from studies made years ago. Although individually they fit naturally into three of the four categories above, they seem for me also to fall into a collection of their own, where I perceive a 'reflective mood' theme is recurring. As before, each image is accompanied by a written introduction to set the scene. Hope you enjoy them and I value any feedback that you care to leave.
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1. 'The Approaching Storm'
Along the Seven Sisters cliffs we walked and then on down to the shoreline, to hear the sound of a curlew over the rolling flint shingle and crashing waves. Looking up one could sense the change, as the tentacles of the wind heralded the approaching storm heading towards the East Sussex coastline.
2. 'Boatshell Creek'
A memory as a lad, of canoeing up one of the tributaries of the Fowey river in Cornwall, where through clear water one could see strange shadows, sandy banks, muddy pools and skeleton like shells of the long abandoned wooden boats, magnificent and proud even in their decay.
3. 'Reflections in a Pool'
On the bank by the weir, where looking down can also be looking up, but which is up and which is down, as the cool clear waters of time pass by?
4. 'One Day's Journey'
A ride out in the car, a circle completed, with fleeting memories as the landscape flies past. But can one really take it all in? Yet enough impressions are left in my mind to enjoy the day.
5. 'Derelict'
6. 'Derelict - Reclaimed'
An observation on the changes taking place from what was once a collection of farm workers corrugated tin sheds, now abandoned and fallen down. Only to be reclaimed by nature in a burst of undergrowth, brambles, saplings and weeds, all creating another sanctuary for wildlife.
7. 'A Windy Day'
I was standing in our orchard looking at the shadows of a plum tree moving in the breeze against the side of an old wooden hut. It was an odour that first evoked in my mind of a windy day at the seaside, an odour like the strong aroma of beached seaweed drying in the sun. But here so far from the sea, the recall had been triggered by tons of old mushroom compost, used as an organic fertilizer, left scattered and drying out on a nearby field.
8. 'Reflections in a Willow Pool'
The mating ground for all the dragonflies, and the attacking ground for the grass snake. But for me it will always be an ever changing picture of delight, peace and harmony, as the willow tree sways in the summer breeze.
9. 'Woven Landscape 2'
Just being there, absorbing the vista, and sensing the inter - connectivity of it all. Where the ancient past is still entwined with the present, irrevocably woven together.
10. 'Eye of the Moon'
To look back up into the eye of the moon, and see the earth in it's infancy, in the blink of an eye.
11. 'Floating Thoughts' 2
Knowing that all life is in motion, and that our thoughts are better for being created consciously.
12. 'The Barrier - Between Illusion and Reality'
Sometimes, for me, things seem so real, so close, that they can almost be touched. But now with little tactile sense, the nearer I approach the heart of matter, the greater the illusion.