This series of drawings and paintings was inspired by walks in Shropshire and surrounding areas, in which I made observations of cabins, caravans and sheds of various kinds. Each place was evidently a place of previous or ongoing habitation, mostly by persons unknown. The circumstances of their abandonment are also unknown or ambiguous, but provoking curiosity. In their woodland surroundings, these places could be viewed as idyllic retreat or desperate refuge.
In these works I contemplate primitive living from ancient human history and a dystopian future. Gaston Bachelard’s “Poetics of Space” was a reference in my reflections on these precarious living conditions. Read more in posts on my blog here and here.
Paintings
Shelter, Oil on canvas, 90cm x 120cm 
Shelter, reverse acrylic on acetate, 20cm x 20cm 
Get Away, oil on canvas, 76 x 55cm 
Get Away study II, oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm 
Get Away study, oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm 
Away, oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm 
Refuge, oil on canvas, 91cm x 122cm
Digital Drawings
Who Was Then The Gentleman, ipad drawing printed on Fine Art Archival 310gsm Museum Heritage printed with Cannon Lucia Light fast Pigment Inks 
That First Home Feeling 
Refuge 2
Drawings
Plotlander II, charcoal on paper, 42 x 59cm 
Plotlander I, charcoal on paper, 42 x 59cm 
Retreat in winter, charcoal on paper, 42 x 59cm 
Retreat II, Charcoal on paper, 42 x 59cm 
And Eve Span, pastel on paper, 42 x 59cm 
When Adam Delved, charcoal on paper, 42 x 59cm
