I've recently returned from a holiday visiting family down in South Wales which included a few days excursion on the Isle of Wight. Just little more than a hundred yards from the house in South Wales there is a path that leads into an oak forest where many of the trees have twisted into fantastical shapes making the place look like a set for a
"Lord of the Rings" or
"Hobbit" film. Most of the trees are stunted and moss covered sessile oaks which I think established themselves on the embankments of a defunct railway that ran from a long-gone coal mine towards Merthyr Tydfyl. These trees have grown seemingly unmolested for years. There is evidence of coppicing along the main path which is now a cycleway.Recently the area has been designated as a park. Parc Cwm Darran.
Twisted oaks. Graphite drawings tinted with water-colour pencils.
Also some trees on the skyline. 6B pencil drawing.
Not forgetting some work done at St.Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight.
Various pencils: 0.7 mm, 2.0 mm and 3 mm leads ranging from B to 4B.
