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 $3,750
Excavations Chalk Cliffs Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm $3,750	Scarp - A mediation on a broken ridge Mixed media on canvas. 137 x 122cm $3,750	Excavations and the spirit of place Mixed media and hand made paper on canvas. 137 x 122cm $3,750
Landscape - Scotland Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 12 x 28cm, frame 40 x 53cm $550	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 $550
Landscape - Cornwall Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 14 x 32cm, frame 43 x 53cm $550	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 $550
Aftermath Polytych. Mixed media on 4 cardboard boxes, each section is 9 x 33 x 12cm. Set of 4 $500	West Kennet Long Barrow 1 Mixed media on three-ply panel. image size 16 x 13cm, frame 38 x 31cm $500	West Kennett Long Barrow 2 Mixed media on three-ply panel. image size 16 x 14cm, frame 38 x 31cm $500
Enclosure - Cumrian Sheep - fold Mixed media on cardboard box. 54 x 36 x 14cm $450	Pen Arth Winter Diptych. Mixed media on cardboard boxes. 19 x 30 x 11cm $400	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 $400	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 $400
The scarp was dark against a greening sky 2 Mixed media on hardwood panel. image size 13 x 23cm $400	Ley Lines 2 Unique state collagraph on handmahde paper. image size 26 x 15cm, frame 53 x 42cm $400	Newgrange 1 Unique state collagraph on handmahde paper. image size 22 x 15cm, frame 53 x 43cm $400
Trackways Unique state collagraph on hand-made paper. image size 27 x 9cm, frame 53 x 41cm $400	Burial Chamber 1 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 16 X 13, frame size 53 X 43. $400	Burial Chamber 2 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 10 X 10, frame size 40 X 37. $400
Burial Chamber 3 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 17 X 14, frame size 53 X 43. $400	Burial Chamber 4 Mixed media on cardboard with perforations. Image size 18 X 15, frame size 53 X 43. $400	Two standing stones Mixed media on cardboard. image size 12 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm $350
Chambered Tomb West Countr Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 9 x 10cm, frame 38 x 31cm $350	Silbury Hill 1 Oil on Magnani paper. image size 12 x 13cm, frame 38 x 30cm $350	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 $350	Bennett's Cross Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 11 x 12cm, frame 38 x 30cm $350	Earthworks 1 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 7.5 x 10cm, frame 23 x 33cm $350
Earthworks 2 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 10 x 8cm, frame 32 x 23cm $350	Silbury Hill 3 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 8.5 x 9cm, frame 38 x 31cm $350	Shaman 1 Reworked black and white photograph. image size 9 x 13cm, frame 23 x 28cm $350
Shaman 2 Reworked black and white photograph. image size 9 x 13cm, frame 23 x 28cm $350	Passage Grave 1 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 11 x 12cm, frame 45 x 38cm $350	Passage Grave 2 Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 7 x 12cm, frame 36 x 38cm $350
Passage Grave 3 Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 7 x 12cm, frame 36 x 38cm $350	TwoTrees Unique state etching and aquatint on paper. image size 8 x 9cm, frame 38 x 36cm $350	Bodmin Moor 1 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 11, frame size 36 x 38cm $350
Bodmin Moor 2 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 12, frame size 36 x 38cm $350	Bodmin Moor 3 Unique state etching & aquatint on paper. Image size 8 x 8, frame size 38 x 37cm $350	Silbury Hill 2 Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 8 x 10cm, frame 23 x 32cm $300
One Tree Hill Mixed media on Magnani paper. image size 7.5 x 10cm, frame 23 x 32cm $300