Flow Pattern 3 (Source) Drawing

River Flow Series Drawings of the patterns of the flow made at the source of a tributary and further downstream in central Todmorden. Charcoal on heavy hand made watercolour paper. The drawing is many layered, to express the layers of water, and the land, and time passing as the rivers flow. About this work This drawing is made after studying the source of the river, at the highest point on the moors where a flow was visible. Following a period of studying the River, and becoming interested in the way that waterways merge together, I made a series of paintings related to the idea of ‘confluence’ as a guiding principle for the work. This river has always been interesting to me because it is at the confluence of three valleys, which give many options for going places and seeing water. A confluence occurs when two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel. Confluences occur where a tributary joins a larger river, where two rivers join to create a third or, where two separated channels of a river, having formed an island, re-join downstream.