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MY TOOLS AT ZUZUSHI GALLERY SHOW
Here are my tool drawings photographed with the original tool on show at the Zuzushi Gallery, as part of Photo Hastings this month. A show of work done during lockdown. I continue to draw my tools. They still fascinate. My […]
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LAST TOMATOES
These are the very last tomatoes of the season and even these are ripening with the aid of a banana on the kitchen table. I try to draw them, an uneasy subject. The tomato is a fruit, part of the […]
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BOWL OF QUINCES
A bowl of thirty three quinces, all from my tree planted on the allotment 2 years ago. Beautiful perfumed fruit. Was Eve’s apple actually a quince? The Ancient Greeks called it the fruit of fertility. In the poem, The Owl […]
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DRAWING IN THE STUDIO
I’m interested in mushrooms, fungi – I saw the mushroom exhibition at Somerset House before lockdown, fascinating. They are neither plant nor animal. Their communication networks are huge. The question was posed – could we join in with their wood […]
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PEAR
Not a silver nutmeg but a golden pear. The best from my tree this season, a beauty. Beauty in natural things. Looking closely, carefully – with care, in all its senses. You see more, you see detail, you see flaws. […]
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POTATOES
Potatoes, earth’s gold. The thrill of forking the soil, and finding these golden vegetables. My favourite vegetable. Numerous ways to cook. Salt of the earth. A basic in my book. All shapes, all sizes. Light up the room with a […]
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AND WHITECURRANTS
And now whitecurrants. Redcurrants, blackcurrants and whitecurrants. These are see-through, you can see the seed, like a skeleton. The bones. The white bones of a thing. The seed, the essence, all that is needed to become. Plus soil, sun and […]
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BENEFIT OF DOZING AND THINKING
I recommend a doze to reflect. I was mulling over this Harvest blog, my new bronze trowel, drawing my allotment tools and I began to think of Jim Dine and his drawings and lithographs of tools, Walker Evans and his […]
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CURRANTS GALORE
Berries: gooseberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants ripe for picking. I reap what I have sown. I have cultivated my plot. Metaphors for life. Produce good to eat, to conserve, to save for winter, less productive times. There has been a gap in […]
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Small brown brush
Small brown brush makes me think of small brown bird. How we start to value the small and the brown and the bird. On the allotment there are more birds. I see them more. A wren scuttled under the shed. […]
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ROSE
Here is my rose, rosa mundi, rose of the world. It’s a gallica rose, a French rose, a crimson striped with white rose, a shrub rose, an old rose, a bushy rose. A showy rose, a fragrant rose, a semi-double […]
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SINGLE RADISH
This was half my total harvest of radish. There were two left alone by the slugs. Even this one has a bite out of it. Radishes may have originated in South East Asia. Greek and Roman agriculturalists of the first […]