Of Gods, Men and Landscape

RYLLTON VINEY

ARTIST STATEMENT

“The works in this exhibition explore ways to represent my longstanding interest in ancient sites and, in particular, standing stones, hilltop earthworks, trackways and leylines, stone circles,passage graves and long barrows and other earth displacements in England ,Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
My approach to painting, drawing and printmaking is marked by a restricted palette often close to monochromatic, a working method of building up and taking away and a deliberate weathered appearance to suggest both natural erosion and the evidence of man-made tracks, mark stones, barrows and other forms of earth displacement .
So, each work is a sort of foray, quarrying into pictorial space suggesting a layering of time and experience through natural and/or man altered conditions. Thus, the work is very much an unhindered responsiveness to place .
For some of the titles I have used quotes from Adam Thorpe’s ULVERTON which could be described as a poetic meditation on British history and the nature of time.”

Artwork from this exhibition is no longer available to purchase.

Pages from a notebook - A secret history of the cow pasture road Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm SOLD	History lessons - The sorrow of black (Cape Grim) Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm SOLD	Enclosure, Judgement and Remembrance Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm
Excavations Chalk Cliffs Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm	Scarp - A mediation on a broken ridge Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm	Excavations and the spirit of place Mixed media and hand made paper on canvas. 137 x 122cm
Landscape - Scotland Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 12 x 28cm, frame 40 x 53cm	Landscape - Ireland Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 17 x 28cm, frame 43 x 53cm SOLD	Landscape - Wales Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 17 x 28cm, frame 43 x 53cm
Landscape - Cornwall Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 14 x 32cm, frame 43 x 53cm	Castlerigg Standing Stones Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 12 x 22cm, frame 38 x 47cm SOLD	Newgrange 2 Unique state collagraph on Magnani paper. image size 30 x 30cm, frame 61 x 49cm
Aftermath Polytych. Mixed media on 4 cardboard boxes, each section is 9 x 33 x 12cm. Set of 4	West Kennet Long Barrow 1 Mixed media on three-ply panel. image size 16 x 13cm, frame 38 x 31cm	West Kennett Long Barrow 2 Mixed media on three-ply panel. image size 16 x 14cm, frame 38 x 31cm
Enclosure - Cumrian Sheep - fold Mixed media on cardboard box. 54 x 36 x 14cm	Pen Arth Winter Diptych. Mixed media on cardboard boxes. 19 x 30 x 11cm	There was the bump of the barrow Mixed media on hardwood panel. image size 18 x 18cm SOLD
On the hill at first light Mixed media on hardwood panel. 14 x 20cm	Over the tussocks of the scarp's slope Mixed media on hardwood panel. 18 x 18cm SOLD	The scarp was dark against a greening sky 1 Mixed media on hardwood panel. image size 13 x 23cm
The scarp was dark against a greening sky 2 Mixed media on hardwood panel. image size 13 x 23cm	Ley Lines 2 Unique state collagraph on handmahde paper. image size 26 x 15cm, frame 53 x 42cm	Newgrange 1 Unique state collagraph on handmahde paper. image size 22 x 15cm, frame 53 x 43cm
Trackways Unique state collagraph on hand-made paper. image size 27 x 9cm, frame 53 x 41cm	Burial Chamber 1 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 16 X 13, frame size 53 X 43.	Burial Chamber 2 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 10 X 10, frame size 40 X 37.
Burial Chamber 3 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 17 X 14, frame size 53 X 43.	Burial Chamber 4 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 18 X 15, frame size 53 X 43.	Two standing stones Mixed media on cardboard. image size 12 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm
Chambered Tomb West Countr Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 9 x 10cm, frame 38 x 31cm	Silbury Hill 1 Oil on Magnani paper. image size 12 x 13cm, frame 38 x 30cm	Ley Lines 1 Mixed media on incised cardboard. image size 12 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm SOLD
Nine Tree Hill Mixed media on incised cardboard. image size 12 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm	Bennett's Cross Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 11 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm	Earthworks 1 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 7.5 x 10cm, frame 23 x 33cm
Earthworks 2 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 10 x 8cm, frame 32 x 23cm	Silbury Hill 3 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 8.5 x 9cm, frame 38 x 31cm	Shaman 1 Reworked black and white photograph. image size 9 x 13cm, frame 23 x 28cm
Shaman 2 Reworked black and white photograph. image size 9 x 13cm, frame 23 x 28cm	Passage Grave 1 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 11 x 12cm, frame 45 x 38cm	Passage Grave 2 Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 7 x 12cm, frame 36 x 38cm
Passage Grave 3 Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 7 x 12cm, frame 36 x 38cm	TwoTrees Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 8 x 9cm, frame 38 x 36cm	Bodmin Moor 1 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 11, frame size 36 x 38cm
Bodmin Moor 2 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 12, frame size 36 x 38cm	Bodmin Moor 3 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 8, frame size 38 x 37cm	Silbury Hill 2 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 8 x 10cm, frame 23 x 32cm
One Tree Hill Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 7.5 x 10cm, frame 23 x 32cm