Impressions of Digley: Quiet Lanes — Wild Moorlands
This collection of drawings and paintings was the product of a year spent rambling around Digley reservoir and the surrounding moorlands. Sketching my way along rugged moorland paths, sitting under the shade of woodland trees and capturing the joy of just being in the landscape.
QUIET LANES — DRAMATIC MOORLANDS
Connecting With The Landscape
Having explored Digley as a young boy, this collection of work is a rediscovery inspired by becoming immersed once more in its quiet lanes and dramatic moorlands, showing the change in perspective borne out of memory, experience, and ever-changing nature.
Drawing in the open air, I quickly capture the moment using ink and homemade tools before developing the work further with ink, acrylic and watercolour. Inspired by both impressionistic and more modern techniques, I use atmospheric effects to bottle up the light, the seasons and weather.
These rambles through Digley’s paths, moors and woodlands are the story of a place and its history, and of finding a newfound appreciation for the landscape of my youth.
Black Clouds Over Black Hill. 23 x 23 cm
Bartin Ruined Farmhouse - Nether Lane, Marsden Clough. 23 x 23 cm
St. David’s Church - Holmbridge. 23 x 23 cm
Sweet Summer - Hoobram Hill. 30 x 30 cm
Spring Unfurled - Gilbriding Lane. 30 x 30 cm
Sycamore Shade - Hoowood Hollow. 30 x 30 cm
Walls Come Tumbling Down - Digley Reservoir. 30 x 30 cm
The Windless Meadow - Upland Pasture Above Bilberry. 30 x 30 cm
Approaching Summer Storm - Fieldhead Lane, Holme. 30 x 30 cm
Fieldhead Lane Shadows - Holme. 23 x 23 cm
Fieldhead Farm - Holme. 23 x 23 cm
Cloudy Moss - Digley Reservoir. 23 x 23 cm
Mad As The Mist And Snow - Hart Hill And Issues Clough. 30 x 30 cm
The Silent Hill - Rounding Good Bent Towards Black Hill. 30 x 30 cm
Old December - Bartin, Nether Lane. 30 x 30 cm
Close The Gate After You - Green Owlers. 30 x 30 cm
Winter Trees - Hoobram Hill. 30 x 30 cm
Winter Sunshine No.1 - Hoowood Lane, Digley. 30 x 30 cm