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Title: Standing Together
Location: Guston Farm, Guston, Kent
Image size: 23cm x 16.5cm
Medium: Linocut 3 Block
Edition size: 20
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Trees and Sky series - Standing Together
In the series of Trees and Sky linocuts the colour behaviour was influenced by Mark Rothko's oil paintings
"Red on Maroon" (1959) and "Black on Maroon" (1958). In Mark Rothko's paintings he creates a strange haunting
light and not just areas of colour. The light appears to shimmer like the sky with undertones of dull clouds
breaking through from underneath the brightness.
The pictures in the Trees and Sky series have been made by using three plates. The first plate to paper was
multiple colours of the furthest background to give a base of undertones. The second plate ties the sky and
background colours and allows some of the colours to shine through. The third plate contains the outline of
the trees.
Standing Together
Trees are fascinating. Over the winter, in just one weekend it seemed as if all the trees lost their leaves.
The high winds came and the trees were laid bare like families or friends standing together. The lines of
trees have all been planted at the same time, yet those in the centre are taller as they are protected by
those on the outside. All the weak branches have been torn away in the storms and high winds and only the
resilient branches remained. Natures way of pruning.
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