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Lesley Birch’s response to the Ivon Hitchens oil painting : ‘Reeded Boat’<\/strong> I made these drawings outside in the South Downs. Like Hitchens, I was aiming for a sensation and feeling of place. I used negative space expressing a taut line of a branch, a soft breeze in a brush of ink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Look Again - Reeded Boat - Leeds Fine Artists","description":"I made these drawings outside in the South Downs. Like Hitchens, I was aiming for a sensation and feeling of place. I used negative space expressing a taut line"},"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lesley-birch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I made these drawings outside in the South Downs. Like Hitchens, I was aiming for a sensation and feeling of place. I used negative space expressing a taut line of a branch, a soft breeze in a brush of ink, the flick of a birdsong pencil mark and a textured wash of a tree trunk. The effect was abstract \u2013 just what I wanted. I enjoyed the qualities of black Indian ink and French Sepia and the deliberate, unrushed placement of marks on bright white paper to capture a moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"