Poppies for Pleasure

Tuesday, 27th July 2004
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary

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It's so good after the fragmented drawing that I managed to do during the filming yesterday to settle down and draw just for pleasure. Pure pleasure. No questions asked.

There were so many questions yesterday, along the lines of:

  • Why do you choose a particular subject?

  • Why focus on details?

  • What are you going to do with the drawing now? Are you taking it further?

  • What are the themes behind your work?

  • What does this part of the world - your home patch, Yorkshire - mean to you?

These seem simple enough questions but they sure do get me thinking.

But my best answer would have been to have kept my mouth shut and to have just got on with the drawing. That's what it's really about.

These Himalayan Poppies appeal to me because of the exuberant outlines of their leaves. They're over-the-top; rather baroque. On the same plant you can find unfurling flowers, seedheads and blotched decaying leaves: three seasons on one plant. Next Page

Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk

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