
earth, water, flame triptych

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
water has a stream-water wash, between paint layers
flame carries ash from Christmas Day fire-pit flame