Frozen Oak at Blake Dean (2021)

Original media: Inks, gouache, acrylics, watercolour, loose pigment, collage, gold thread, 23 carat gold leaf

Painted as part of The Nightingale Project: a series of trees and nature inspired by lock down in The Calder Valley from March 2020 to March 2021 (and the brief escapes from it over the summer).

A stubby little oak perched above the river at Blake Bean on a freezing February morning. Beech leaves and oak leaves, edged with white frost, tiled the ground beneath it. I stopped very briefly to draw it on an early morning run. I could manage only about 2 minutes without my gloves on!

Available as a mounted and signed limited edition print – unframed. Hand-finished with gold leaf and gold thread.