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Artworks on the theme of cultivation & growth, the 'cultiver collection'
'Cultiver' Collection

multiple layers of collage, photographic images, drawing in ink and charcoal and graphite, varnishes, 80 cm h x 95 cm w

Drawing in graphite and charcoal on printed edited photographic image

Moving up through horizons and breaking out, like seeds and seedlings, this body of work attempted to move away from the rigid grid into something more organic. Mixed media on paper 80 cm h x 110 cm width. SOLD

multiple layers of collage, photographic images, drawing in ink and charcoal and graphite, varnishes, 80 cm h x 95 cm w
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Mixed media from a growing series of drawings on paper inks acrylics, charcoal and graphite 30 cm h x 40 cm w

Mixed media from a growing series of drawings on paper inks acrylics, charcoal and graphite 30 cm h x 40 cm w

Drawing on photographic ground in charcoal, graphite and chalk this piece is an exploratory work in the series Meadowsweet about fields, growth and cultivation. 84 cm h x 94 cm w on paper.

Mixed media from a growing series of drawings on paper inks acrylics, charcoal and graphite 30 cm h x 40 cm w
' Meadowsweet'
Large canvases,
using gestural graphic mark-making with acrylics and inks and drawing with graphite and charcoal,
small studies on paper.
Meadowsweet is a new look for me at fields, cultivation, growth, chaotic abundance and controlled farming...
Above:
'Meadowsweet One'
mixed media on canvas
138 cm h x 204 cm w
Below:
studies on paper
in mixed media, 30 x 40 cm
& other works from this series.
Autumn 2021
'Oliviers'
sketching and photographing in the field,
showing in the new 'open studio' show, this December.










The historic and mythological trees of the south of France, from the cedar woods, the plane avenues, the olive groves and the fruit orchards are also deeply ingrained in my personal history and sense of well-being.
Each tree tells an inspiring Mediterranean story.

I walked here daily during the lockdown of spring 2020. Rain or shine, these woodlands on a small crest of garrigue 'arrière-pays' replenished my creative imagination and calmed me.

The orchards around my village are a rich source of inspiration in winter and spring, because of the interesting rhythms and shapes created by the branches. The blossom smells fantastic too. These orchards are pruned by hand in a traditional style to maximise and cup the spread of the branches.

Sometimes I spend time playing with my photography to see where later, the painting will take me. Here, superposing the images of this avenue of planes.

I walked here daily during the lockdown of spring 2020. Rain or shine, these woodlands on a small crest of garrigue 'arrière-pays' replenished my creative imagination and calmed me.
My village perches atop the first foothills of the ‘arrière-pays’ or hinterlands of the Mediterranean. Whether in the forms created by its cultivation, by the careful pruning of fruit orchards or in the rhythmic repetition of lines through a vineyard in winter, this landscape that surrounds me influences and inspires me endlessly. Each change of season brings new meaning, a new symbolism. The emergence of an almost-symmetry through the drawing of a tree with my arms fully extended, helped turn my paintings in the ‘Orchard’ series into ‘body maps’ rooted, growing and stretching skyward. The stems of grass, reeds, vines, dissecting the receding horizons, all form a mesh, like woven cloth or perhaps they look like notes written in music. This is ‘Big Sky Country’, filling me with a sense of hope and unknown potentials. These works in the series ‘Fields & Horizons’ also speak of how the flow of life is cut and crossed by random events and extraordinary experiences.
Le terroir de mon village, au pied des premières collines de l'arrière-pays. Que ce soit dans les formes créées par sa culture, par la taille soignée des vergers fruitiers, ou dans la répétition rythmique des lignes à travers un vignoble en hiver, ce paysage qui m'entoure m'influence et m'inspire à l'infini. Chaque changement de saison apporte un nouveau sens, un nouveau symbolisme. L’émergence d’une presque-symétrie par le dessin d’un arbre avec les bras tendus contribuent à transformer mes peintures de la série ‘Orchard’ en ‘cartes corporelles’ ; mon corps enraciné, grandissant et s'étendant vers le ciel. Les tiges d'herbe, de roseaux, de vignes dissèquent les horizons lointains forment toutes une maille, comme une étoffe tissée ou peut-être ressemblent-elles à des notes écrites en musique. C'est le pays du 'Grand Ciel', me remplissant d'un sentiment d'espoir et de potentiels inconnus. Ces œuvres de la série ‘Fields & Horizons’ parlent également de la façon dont le courant de la vie soit coupé et traversé par des événements aléatoires et des expériences extraordinaires.
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