Looking out of my living room window, and thinking about the book I’m reading on Peter Lanyon I appreciate his comments about the landscape and the figure. “long drawings…there may be a stretch right across a thigh and a leg which would lead to paintings of very long landscapes…”
The lines of the old field boundaries lie in slow curves on the hillside, throwing shadows across the fields in the evening light. The effect is sensous, “pleasing to the senses”, and intriguing, hinting at things hidden under the surface the sinews and muscles of the land.
