{"id":12149,"date":"2022-08-15T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2022-08-15T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:27:11","slug":"river-mouth-and-forest-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/blog\/2022\/08\/15\/river-mouth-and-forest-god\/","title":{"rendered":"river mouth and forest god"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been finding new inspiration in the landscape from my reading and work has been coming out of it. the places themselves produce ideas<\/p>\n

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here’s a lovely forest monster looming out of the path<\/p>\n

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and another. these steep slopes at Kemback were once busy with mining – all the stone for St Andrews is supposed to have come off this hillside – and there are roads cut into it.<\/p>\n

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ghostly diggings and troll-like humps sitting under trees<\/p>\n

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this tree has fallen against another<\/p>\n

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you have to duck under it, and I noticed yesterday it was quite a lot lower, I wonder after the storms last night, when we must have had a couple of inches of rain, will it have shifted more….. maybe I should go round it rather than under.<\/p>\n

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I discovered how to go through a door that’s been open for a while recently<\/p>\n

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I have been photographing our walks on the beach, and drawing<\/p>\n

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but always felt constrained by the horizon.<\/p>\n

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I looked at an exhibition by an Australian artist, Peter Stevens, at the Defiance Gallery<\/a> – a whole series of paintings about river, estuary, very elemental, which showed me what I should be doing with my drawings – forget the horizon, draw as if from above.<\/p>\n

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so I’m quite excited about what’s coming out<\/p>\n

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all the textures and lines<\/p>\n

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which have lured me on for so long<\/p>\n

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it’s a nice breakthrough<\/p>\n

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and a change in colour too<\/p>\n

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this is a little one, a resolution to a painting that has been waiting to be finished for some time.<\/p>\n

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the orange spots – must do more of that!<\/p>\n

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colour can be so transformative<\/p>\n

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hipstamatic does these random things<\/p>\n

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but the blue is important<\/p>\n

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and tiny bits of red showing underneath<\/p>\n

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that have been painted over from the first and second passes.<\/p>\n

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another one today – here are details<\/p>\n

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it has a piece of raw linen canvas glued over the primed canvas, across the centre, from edge to edge.<\/p>\n

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charcoal into wet paint<\/p>\n

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ocean at the river’s mouth<\/p>\n

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Acrylic, linen, charcoal, oil pastel, on linen, 60 x 50 cm.<\/p>\n

My eyes rusted and lost\/containing seawater\/and my hair full of saltmarsh. \/I ask for its touch, brimming\/its voices and reasons.<\/p>\n

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and this morning, after a night of violent thunderstorms<\/p>\n

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what waits in the wood for me<\/p>\n

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guarded<\/p>\n

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embalmed in resin<\/p>\n

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water will have washed down the steep trails<\/p>\n

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it won’t be the same<\/p>\n

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