21 x 21 cm | 8 x 8 in
Subject: Landscapes & Nature
Tags:
Trees,
Traditional,
Forest,
Realism,
Scotland
Original drawing in pencil on wood panel.
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Notable Achievements 2023
Tangled marks and gestures form twisted roots and branches. Blake Milteer’s meticulously put-together drawings ask questions of their construction, making one want to get close to the work, to see how the graphite touches the paper. To see how much pressure from the pencil, to see the fine linework. Enchanting but strange, the work’s medium and materiality is obvious, yet this doesn’t prevent them from edging towards the photographic, towards printed reproductions in the newspaper. It would be easy to simply speak about Milteer’s craftsmanship, such is the compelling nature of the drawings. This is also in part down to well-chosen and engaging subject matter. Natural forms collide and collapse, growing into and out of one another. Dead matter becomes compost; the landscape is a space for regrowth. It is a space of possibility, something highlighted by Milteer’s quiet but persuasive images.