Bell Tor 3

I’ve been making pictures in most hands-on media since as far back as I can remember but have specialised in soft pastels for over 50 years and joined the Pastel Society in 2012.

 

In that medium I work in numerous ways and genres from precise observational studies to wild abstractions and all stations in between, including extensive projects on French organ music, snooker and, appropriately, submerged cathedrals.

 

I spent my early childhood in Brixham but have no recollections of Dartmoor from that period. 64 years later we moved back from Sussex to Devon and now the drama, darkness and light of the Tors, have inspired me to create an on-going series of images related to climate change in which the Moor is becoming submerged by the rising seas until all that remains are those mighty sentinels above the surface.

This piece is one of an on-going series of images related to climate change in which the Moor is becoming submerged by the rising seas until all that remains are those mighty sentinels above the surface.

With one exception they are all done with soft pastel on black paper, some drawn from my direct sketches of the Tors, others from my own photos of aspects of them, but my purpose has been, some humour included, to explore what the Moor - that was, millennia ago, beneath a primeval ocean - might look like now, in our troubled times. 

Pastel

53x79cm

Framed