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Their exquisite drawings represent a special dialogue described by Lewty in an essay accompanying the installation as 'a shared adventure'. For nearly fifteen years Mary Riley has made drawings of Larkstoke Hill in Warwickshire, working in situ with sketchbooks (there are over forty of them), and then making more considered drawings in her studio. Inspired by her example, Lewty recently renewed his own practice of drawing from nature. He began working on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, a well-known landscape which he has explored for decades during his regular visits. This way of working has helped him to become more focused and concentrated in his studio work. "Once I tried to get everything into the picture, now I try to leave out as much as I can. If there is one thing that links my work to that of Mary Riley, in her very different landscape, it it this." In recent works Lewty's texts have become veiled, Riley's hill has been stripped to its essence. For both artists, the move towards a 'a full emptiness' is everywhere apparent in these luminous, delicate drawings. |
