"you draw like a dream" - what pride and pleasure that comment gave me
Drawing is the lifeblood of the visual arts, and my drawings are always awash with life-energy. My favourite drawing medium is pen and ink, often worked up with watercolour. I always set out to capture the essence of the subject with my individual style & technique.
Outdoor pictures always start in situ - I sat for many hours on my little stool when doing my book on Shropshire. I like to show subjects in a way that highlights and reveals their essential qualities and intrinsic character, whilst trying always to avoid being architectural or photographic.
I am much influenced by such masters as Egon Schiele, whose brave use of line I much admire. Like him, I draw in ink, so any line that I draw is there for all time. This calls for strong drawing skill, and the capacity to perceive, measure, and interpret with confidence.
Those below are available for purchase.
Some sold ones can be seen here - click
Girl in Blue - pen & ink - 38 by 56cm - POA
I draw immediately, in ink with a dip pen. The lines can be thin or thick, according to how hard I press on the page. Sometimes the ink blobs, or I make mistakes which I cannot change. There are two on this sheet.
I think the result is more immediate and exciting.
- Enquire or comment here.
Cambrian Railway Museum - pen & ink & watercolour - 73 by 56cm
From "Maggie Humphry's Shropshire" - POA framed
For enthusiasts, this museum at Oswestry is such an interesting place, housing many old artefacts from the steam railway age. I had to make sure that no train was coming as I sat down to draw, but as I said in my book, "the rolling stock steam in so infrequently that the lizards live undisturbed in the ballast between the sleepers".
- Enquire or comment here.
Burford - pen & ink & watercolour - 75 by 58cm
Was in "Maggie Humphry's Shropshire" - POA framed
This drawing of the oast houses at Lockyers Farm in Burford is one of my greatest favourites - one I'd held back from selling, for a long time.
In my book, I wrote "the vanes turn idly in the breeze. No smell of drying hops hangs in the air now. Yet behind in the orchard the apple trees still drown with white blossom in Spring and in the Autumn bow down their branches with heavy fruit".
- Enquire or comment here.
Hopton Wafers - pen & ink & watercolour - 74 by 55cm - framed
Image used in "Maggie Humphry's Shropshire" - POA
A secret corner of England, almost. Another of Shropshire's quite delightful small villages.
In my book, I said, "all made of different materials, this group of houses is as delightful as the village name".
- Enquire or comment here.
Print 