Spring is coming! A beech tree in the #scottishborders for #thicktrunktuesday
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Ah thank you! It was lovely to see you there 😁😁

‘Masquerade’
Charcoal on wood panel
110 x 70cm

Soon to be on the walls of Custom House Gallery, Leith in ‘More Than Human’ with Inês-Hermione Mulford, open 14th - 17th March.

Happy #thicktrunktuesday 🌳

Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a truly huge beech in a Scottish bluebell woodland.
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My charcoal drawing ‘Apparition’ will be on show soon in ‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford, highlighting our connections and parallels with the natural, more than human world.
14th – 17th March, Custom House Gallery, Leith
Opening: Friday 14th 6–8pm
Talk: Sunday 2-3pm

Time travel via tree rings

Thank you Emily that’s really good to hear!

Some trees seem to ooze energy and character, they stop me in my tracks. I draw the trees that make you say ‘wow’ out loud. This is one of them, a downy birch covered in witches’ brooms.

‘Bowsie’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly

Thank you for sharing 🙏

When we regard the natural world, we can’t help but see ourselves reflected back, seeing our faces in the clouds, our forms within the lines of trees.
‘More Than Human’, a joint exhibition with Inês-Hermione Mulford.
Custom House, Leith 14th–17th March
Opening event Friday 14th 6–8pm

Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a big beech tree with a powerful grip on the earth.
Scottish Borders
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the river in the wood

Coming soon…I have 3 small works in this members’ show.

Art & Nature Collective’s First AGM Exhibition
'The Nature of Art'

✎ Dates: 1st – 30th March 2025
📍Location: Green Gallery, Dundee Botanic Garden
🌟Opening Event: 1st March, 2–4 PM - you’re invited!

Witch’s broom growths against a clear winter sky create an irresistible combination of delicate twigginess and diffuse fuzziness for this charcoal artist.

‘Knurlt’
Charcoal and conté on wood panel
30 x 30cm
Available now from Kilmorack Gallery

Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is a Scots pine thriving on a beach of glacial sands.
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The treachery of swamps en route to the fields of an ancient battlefield makes it all the more enigmatic and is enough to make me believe that we are going further back in time with every step! A battered set of duckboards adds to the uncertainty of it all. 'Imagine a Knight in full armour having to do this', I say .. and slipping and sinking into the bog helplessly I imagine.. a thin forest looms ..

'Across Bogs (Duckboards)'
Charcoal
-Marks on Maps-

I can’t really say why I made this drawing, why I saw the trees in this way, only that it was a ghost I needed to make visible.

‘Leaning into shadows’
Charcoal on canvas
110 x 70cm

My drawing wand in action today - it’s one of my favourite tools, which I made from a nice dry hogweed stem picked last autumn. It’s surprisingly strong, feels light and responsive and has a hollow centre perfect to poke a bit of charcoal into.

I tried to get into the skin of a tree with this drawing. How does it feel to be moving like this beech? What does that twist feel like in my own body? Would I wear my own scars with as much dignity and grace?

‘Transfigured’
Charcoal on panel
51 x 33cm

A large gnarled and knobbly oak with a large limbed canopy grows on a sandy riverbank with green and yellow ground vegetation behind - and an old stone house in Birnam village in the background. The tree has an arch shaped hole at the base leading to its hollow centre. Photo ©️ Coralie Mills 2024.

Macbeth “shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him."

The Birnam Oak, Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is associated with Shakespeare’s Scottish play which, it has to be said, rather misrepresents the Macbeth dynasty.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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@phewtus.bsky.social Good Morning Lady of the Trees🌳🌱
Ancient offering from the Dark Hedges - have a great #ThickTrunkTuesday! ☘️🤗☘️

good morning treepeople and happy #thicktrunktuesday

Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1052 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday

Here for you this #thicktrunktuesday is an ancient oak that has been sculpting itself over centuries, (with some human and animal intervention) creating the form we see today.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
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If the trees could talk, would you be able to hear them? What if they have been whispering all this time? Shhh world, I’m trying to listen.

First trip to Calder Wood after the storm, some of the old friends have lost limbs but most are still standing

Ancient English Woodland at dusk

Ancient Woodland living uninterrupted since the last Ice Age

15,000 years of the ghosts of trees, animals & humans

The 1,500 year old ditch that marks our southern boundary is the ancient border of the Kingdoms of Kent & South Saxons

This land is special. This land is sacred

Today’s studio recipe…

4 drawings of ancient oaks, made in parkland in early spring
1 drawing of a sea with a modest swell
1 drawing of a North Yorkshire waterfall
A memory of a gentle wind shifting branches slightly against the sky

I can’t really explain the method, might have been a bit magic.