seeing water

Sites in the British Isles where water becomes visible in different ways. Water is shaped by its surroundings but, through time, shapes the world at a tiny and a gigantic scale.

Observation and imagination are combined in a new way with outdoor oil studies, digital analysis and studio painting.

The mutability of water stands for the Mutability of Nature.

click an image for each work

For digital mapping to reveal colour-textures in water click here.

stream of living water

wave in the west

oak wood water

furnace falls

reservoir and swallow

in Wales I was based in a small hill house built in the 1930's called Penbwlch, which means head of the pass.

heaven's brink

I well consider all that ye haue sayd,
And find that all things steadfastness doe hate
And changed be: yet being rightly wayd
They are not changed from their first estate;
But by the change ther being doe dilate:
And turning to themselves at length again,
Doe work their owne perfection so by fate:
Then ouer them Change doth not rule and raigne;
But they raigne our change, an doe their states maintain.

Nature corrects Mutabilitie, from
Sir Edmund Spenser, The Fairy Queen, VII, vii, 58
pub. 1609