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oil on a wooden panel 30x30cm
Making Connections distills the quiet intricacies of Dartmoor into a visual language of tension and flow. Two vivid clusters—one rising, one grounded—anchor the composition, rendered in reds, oranges, yellows, and blacks. They pulse with energy, like outcrops catching light or emotional echoes across moorland. Fine, branching lines stretch between them, suggesting unseen pathways—of wind, memory, or thought.
The white field surrounding these forms evokes Dartmoor’s spaciousness: mist, silence, and the sense of something just beyond reach. The painting doesn’t map the land—it listens to it. It captures how connection on the moor is often felt more than seen, traced through rhythm, resonance, and pause.
For collectors, Making Connections offers a contemplative abstraction rooted in place. It’s ideal for those drawn to work that balances expressive intensity with poetic restraint—where landscape becomes metaphor, and gesture becomes dialogue.

I use oil pastels, oil sticks, markers, scrapers, charcoal, pigment sticks, newspaper, and graphite to make marks,s whichever fits the moment.
UV protected, signed on the back. The work is on a plywood panel and is ready to hang. No further framing is needed.

Ref: 24/09