Above, beyond and across the Salisbury plain

The Bigger Picture

The dig site and broader surrounding landscape.

Sight lines and angles

My objective is to continue working from drawings and paintings to establish sight lines, and angles. These converge and create critical thinking once extended out from the picture frame and into the studio space.

Each visual element becomes a reference point and is important, in terms of landscape recognition. I have constructed a window frame or portal to view the landscape from.

In the same way pine charcoal drawings might have been thought about to make directions or visual sign posts in the landscape. Stonehenge or Vespasian camp would have been seen from afar.

‘The stones found at the site travelled by rivers used as high ways and by ways to transport stones from different areas in Britain.’

Professor David Jacques, Site Director, Vespasian (the Stonehenge.