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oil on a wooden panel 30x30cm
Reaching Out is a visual meditation on Dartmoor’s quiet magnetism—its ability to draw, connect, and stir. A vivid cluster of reds, yellows, and blacks anchors the lower left of the canvas, textured and alive like wind-torn bracken or emotional terrain. From this core, a single orange line threads diagonally upward, reaching toward a smaller burst of color in the top right. The gesture is fragile, deliberate, and full of longing.
This painting captures the essence of Dartmoor not through depiction, but through emotional geography. The space between the two forms is charged with possibility—echoing the moor’s vastness, its silences, and the invisible threads that bind its elements. The title suggests both vulnerability and intent: a reaching across distance, whether physical or felt.
For collectors, Reaching Out offers a compelling balance of expressive intensity and poetic restraint. It’s a piece that invites reflection and rewards slow looking—ideal for collections that value abstraction rooted in place and emotion.

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: 24/08