Spring-summer/Lockdown 2020

Posted on March 29th, 2020 by


Soaked: this evening Malene and I were sitting by the water at high tide at King Henrys Stairs, a few yards from here. I had my back to the river when it decided to drench me. I was drawing this at the time … I was grateful, and the drawing came out a little different from planned. 9 8 20
Conversation: and Malene’s plants 13 8 2020
After a day on the path – the stream beneath 7 8 20
Lost rivers of London: The Black Ditch 6 8 20
Flood tide, Swan Wharf 5 8 20
 a few minutes with the nearest Hawksmoor wonder, peeping over the customs wall of Tobacco Dock 4 8 20
Morning at King Henry’s Stairs: a flurry of activity at the waterline 26 7 20
Delichon urbicum /House Martin – Shad Thames 24 7 20
Platanus X. Custom House, London. 20 7 20
Late morning coffee, by the water under Tilia x europaea (unter den LInden) 23 7 2929
Ginger beer and conversation on St Johns Lane, Smithfield 20 7 20
Looking up 3 7 20
‘…to express the fire in the mind’: conversation with George Rochberg. Wapping Reach 30 8 2020
Conversation (Homage to Lee Krasner) 27 6 20
Overlayered conversation 26 6 2020
‘And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?’ I have spent most of my life within sight of Canary Wharf. Distance lends enchantment – from our highwater mark 19 6 2020
Sitting on our little strand this afternoon, thinking about the painters who loved this bit of river. 31 5 2020
Tea in the park with @mskaerved (we are surrounded by them here in Wapping), and a wonderful, Platanus X/Tree-herder) 27 5 2020
An hour on the beach with tea – clouds rolling in. 18 6 2020
Dawn Chorus 28/29 5 2020
Light on the Water. High tide – 26 5 20
30 minutes by our river. 25 5 2020
Malene’s table 29 3 20
17 5 20
A light in the river 14 4 20
Light in the Water 15 4 20
Conversation and light 16 4 20
Door of the windl 19 4 2020
Something in the water (tide coming in 26 4 2020)