Notes
Topic: Nature
I like to pretend I accept the ambivalence of landscape but really I expect some subjectivity from it. I want its blessing, its confirmations, it’s healing powers. I want the right configuration of hedges, trees just so.
Barn Wood is full of wood anemones, a patchy blanket of expectant white faces pointed towards any break in the forest canopy.
Places as the interaction between the physical and the soulful
The small car park at the start of the Ridgeway is half full of camper vans. No one is stirring at 6:45am and there are no other walkers when I bounce the car over the uneven surface of the car park, grab my camera and start up the ancient track.
Sunrise mid-October, Hunter's Moon, Cornwall
Photos from the marchlands
A wisteria-wrapped memory of kites over a chalk field.
Photos from two days walking the Ridgeway
A few excerpts on place and landscape from On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester
Words to accompany paintings in Evermore
Words to accompany paintings in A Certain Day
A 1986 documentary about the British landscape photographer
Imaginative affinities with the natural world