These pieces are moments in time but they are also made up of many things. Field Path, the middle illustration here, is a patchwork of memories from different places, brought together by the hills I always look for as a landmark. In a photograph they look distant and tiny, but that's never how they feel to me.
Even the wild rose, which is quite similar to the reference photograph, is still a representation of my memory more than a direct copy. Some things I re-drew several times or felt indecisive about, others I drew once and that was it, the first time.
The end result in each case is very much like what I see and feel when I remember these places, and I'm happy about that. I'm always seeking to convey feelings more than a literal representation of something. These two things do often go hand in hand, but perception and memory shape and change things. I think this is true even when I'm drawing from fantasy, because it has to draw from both real and imagined reference points and be processed mentally... The lines are often blurry between drawing from life and imagination.
