Dixter diaries

Great Dixter sketchbook diaries 2023-24
Miscellaneous A3 sketchbook studies of The Peacock Garden, The Topiary Lawn, Winter grasses, The Ancient Mulberry and Lutyen's Steps.

Great Dixter in print
The Peacock Garden, Great Dixter, 3 layer linocut reduction limited edition of 8 prints; Peacock Blue, one layer linocut edition of 50 prints; unlimited greetings card. Great Dixter Inside and Out drawing recently published in the 2024 Journal.

Digital Dixter diaries - winter into spring 2024
So easy to become lost in magic of the towering winter grasses at Great Dixter.
At the top of Lutyen's steps. Magnolia soulangeana 'Lennei' in full flush. The giant Gunnera manicata in the Lower moat.

Digital Dixter diaries - summer 2023
Height of summer. Mysterious, magical place, amazing history and stunning design. Sometimes overwhelming.

In and out of the house - summer 2024
Digital drawings from the Alan Caiger-Smith collection at Great Dixter. In 2015 Alan donated over 300 pieces to the trust and I've been drawing in the dimly lit Billiard Room where the majority of the work is stored, 3 and 4 pieces deep... Quick digital sketches, including reflections of the blazing mid-summer Solar bed.

Taking sketchbook drawings forward - summer 2024
Back in the studio over the summer I've been developing sketchbook Dixter drawings into graphite imprints or digital artwork and experimenting with these combined with linocut. Finally printing the Peacock collagraph block at Dumfries House.

Digital collage
Imaginative and topographical studies developed from drawings made in the studio and at Great Dixter en plein air.
Magisterium - digital collages created from an oil study made in the studio and digital drawings of the chasubles in the V&A.
The Ancients - digital collage using en plein air sketchbook drawings of the Lutyen's steps melded with a studies of the Breughel's Parable of the Blind; digital drawing of the Agnus Dei crozier and sketchbook drawings of the Artificial hawk taken through to a screenprint

Third season - spring & summer 2025
Digital collage (2024 & 2025 drawings mashed) and study made en plein air on the Lutyens steps. Solar bed early spring