230529_Silbury_Hill Print

This is one in a series of Digitally Remastered Drawing prints that are drawn from around the area where I live. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty that has been shaped by farming and inhabited for thousands of years and some of my drawings are of the ancient monuments that are dotted around the region. It is an ongoing project working in the landscape around River Thames (and slightly further afield) reaching back to the autumn of 2022, but as it progresses, I will replace the older ones or ones that I feel have been superseded with new ones on an ad hoc basis. The idea is to create a collection of landscapes that rolls and evolves with the seasons. My method of working is to create two drawings ‘en plein air’ the first is a black and white drawing and the other is in colour. Back in the studio I use the black and white drawing to create a depth map in a computer graphics programme and then use the colour version to paint the depth map with colour. This provides a layer of miss-registration and additional texture to the drawing. The final version is rendered in virtual glass resulting print is digitally printed on artist quality paper at whatever size is wanted. More recently I have been using a slide format to provide a frame and structure to the prints, this is for the fun of seeing the 35mm slide format at a large scale (it is a format I used a lot at art school) and to reflect on the ephemeral nature of media. The original artworks are not for sale, but they are available as unlimited edition prints at various sizes from this website, the bigger the better.