Through Water Ripples

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Through Water Ripples

A signed limited edition art print A3 sized, 297 x 420 mm (including a white Boarder)

Actual print size 260 x 260 mm

This signed limited edition print has quality deep rich colours and is on 300gsm cotton perlino art paper. Yum!

(50 available prints only)

This is a 'painting' made using collage techniques from the words of the famous Northamptonshire poet John Claire. His words have been meticulously used to create collage techniques that reveal lines of poetry and can be read within the picture.

My inspiration comes from nature and the local environment of lakes, rivers, a woods where I live. This painting shows a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire. I have taken many trips along the canal with friends and I enjoy the peace and tranquility of the water and wildlife.The words of the poem add a bit more magic to my imagination and allow you to see into the world of the poet and me - the artist!

The poem that helped inspire this painting:

Field Thoughts

By John Clare

Field thoughts to me are happiness and joy,

While I can lie upon the pleasant grass,

And track some little path and so employ

My mind in trifles, pausing as I pass

The little wildflower clumps by, nothing nursed

But dews and sunshine and impartial rain;

And welcomingly to quinch my Summer thirst

I bend by the flaggy dyke to gain

Dewberries so delicious to the taste;

And then I wind the flag-fringed meadow lake

And mark the pike plunge with unusual haste

Through waterweeds and many a circle make,

While bursts of happiness from Heaven fall;

There all hopes: her fields are free to all.

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Limited Edition Print Through Water Ripples

The Nene Valley stretches from West Northamptonshire all the way through Peterborough and has the Nene river flowing through it. The landscape is surrounded by lush farmland and old villages with hidden footpaths connecting them together. I have always used this landscape as the basis for my artwork showing the wildlife and hills of my home.

My artwork frequently uses a range of mixed media techniques that have also incorporated words. In recent years this has become more important and now collage is a major part of my work which often uses words poetry. The lines of various poems have been woven into my imagery - segments of which can be read.

The wide range of habitats such as wildflower meadows, wetlands, marshes, woodlands and wet grasslands are full of a diverse range of animals and birds. These offer endless inspiration for my artwork on a daily basis as I live right on the edge of a stunning nature reserve near the towns of Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough and Rushden.