earth, water and flame

Midwinter Spring -“its own season ( T.S. Eliot)”, has its own season on Bodmin Moor, and each of these three paintings carries fragment, history, memory, sense of place, spirit and trace of other. Water from a stream by the studio is mixed with soluble oil paint and…

earth contains fragments of earth from the moor

earth, copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020

water has a stream-water wash, between paint layers

water copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020

flame carries ash from Christmas Day fire-pit flame

flame copyright Philip Bennetta 01/01/2020