RED BRACKEN

This picture made by Suke has that strange duality, that even though the colour is very obviously false,  there is only a secondary realisation that there has been an inversion from green to red.

The last Artwalk lingers with me as a hot day and this image matches that feeling.

Nick Joubinaux Made this image of an oak with a heart shaped hole in it during the last Artwalk. It is one of the fire damaged trees within the triangular shaped earthwork on Ashtead common. This is a place I always want to stop and sit or draw when I am walking the commons. It has had a drastic haircut so it is a bit bald at the moment.

I hope to be back there soon.

Woodcock corner, a place that is at the boundary between Epsom and Ashtead commons, Newton wood and fields to the North. When I get to this point on my walks there is a feeling of arrival and immersion. I can't explain it, but it is like diving into cold clear water, both familiar and strange.

It is called Woodcock corner because they used to shoot them there, so now there are none, strange how that happens.

It isn't long now till the last Artwalk on the 1st of September, see you there