Catkins to Clumps

Artist’s notes: Wittenham Clumps, viewed through a traditionally laid hedge of Hazel wattles, with catkins.

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty Hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies 1923)

Medium: Oil on paper, overlaid while still wet with lead pencil

Original: SOLD

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