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Connections through landscape

Fig 1Worms Head Photo P.J. Evans

Pathways exist through time and purpose, evolving slowly with the walker's rhythm and movement.

I wander, progress, uncover, connect and navigate - walking, noticing, thinking. I notice a well-worn spot on Worms Head; it is here a small herd of wandering sheep return to each evening, their leader sits on this chosen mound as the sun sinks, looking out across the landscape and enjoying a spectacular Arcadian view.

I looked at how we depend on our responses to the landscape view in Unit One - Drawing the Gap. The understanding of landscape aesthetics is an important phenomenon of our environmental perception. R ecognition has no words it is wired straight to brain hot spots enabling us to recognise and respond immediately to our observations; neural pathways are created through practise, experience, and knowledge.

In this essay I aim to wend my way along examining the relationship between observation, place, response and drawing, collecting relevant facts, exploring significant details and making connections along the way.

Drawing communicates without words through the differing elements and qualities it contains, if unfinished or all inconsequential details are removed there remains a visual understanding. Accessed by way of referral, this visual recognition is found from past experiences.

Seeing and observing are experiences of the present moment that remain with the viewer, becoming part of any future recognition and continually increasing fluidity in relation to place.This way we can acknowledge the glimpse, its apparent smudginess of residual marks express meaning and our brains complete the information.

I search for differences as I draw; differences between qualities that can allow recognition I observe and describe,maintaining visual directness that relates to visceral touch and communicating content over appearance.

In an open or abstract work these observations retain their position to the physical world while untying their reference to nature.

Walking along a path, differing views come into focus as my eye travels around. I walk, I look, I stop, but remain standing to maintain the physical energy of thisspontaneous interpretation. It is important to make a quick notation, to record the event but not to get too comfortable with the scene, allowing awkwardness to remain visible in the drawing. I scan, turning my head to locate and understand any aspects that motivated my decision to draw here.

A pause by structure and space or physicality of angle, slope, drop, gravity, distance, vast or enclosed or minor aspect that catches my attention and instigates the drawing. I intentionally reject the single perspective viewpoint, seen as if looking through a window or at a photograph. It is not a scene as if reflected in a 'Claude Glass', time and distance are acknowledged.

Claude Lorraine painted nature and mankind in harmony, scenes of eternal summer that dream of pastoral peace and provides an escape from threat or the turbulent reality.

FIG 2 Landscape scenes in pen and wash attributed to Claude Lorraine 1600-1682

The Claude Glass drawing technique made it easier for other artists to achieve this romantic idyll. It is a slightly convex tinted mirror, 'they give the object of nature a soft, mellow tinge like the colouring of that Master', amateur artist, Reverend William Gilpin explained. Tonal values of a view were reduced by the tint and a neat scene was framed in the convex mirror. Tourists often just wanted to view the scenery via the mirror to give the real live view an effective and pleasing 'mellow tinge'.

FIG 3 From the bank of a river,

watercolour by Reverend
William Gilpin 1724-1804

Joseph Mallord William Turner was inspired by the popular landscape paintings of Claude Lorraine with their subtle variations of tone but avoided directly representing every detail he saw, preferring to work from his experience of being in nature. He made walking tours throughout his life, hoarding his sketches, considering them essential aids in recalling 'every aspect of his experience'.

FIG 6 Sailor Stone Hindhead -photo Jill Evans 2012

Wandering along the newly made pathway at Hindhead I pause to look out at the view and sit on a tree stump in front of the 'Sailor's Stone' ³; my eye is drawn around the curve of Devils Punchbowl. Here the new A3 tunnel has returned this natural space back to Turner's pastoral idyll.

This drawing requires more time to investigate the massive space.

FIG 7 Devils cauldron view from Gibbet Hill, Hindhead Jill Evans 2012

Our eyes become the centre of the world when we apply rules of perspective says According to Greek philosophers who believed in the dominance of vision, it classifies, organises and orders visual information . Plato saw vision as our greatest gift and asserted that universal truths should be seen through the mind's eye. We see this now in the use of many Greek ocular metaphors for intellect in everyday language,enlightening us with clear vision and insight.

Through visual examination the eye can assess and understand what it sees even at a distance and even more intriguingly it sees itself seeing, no wonder the Renaissance classed sight top in their hierarchy of senses.

FIG 8 Druids Grove Ancient Yew Tree - photo P.J. Evans

These powerful figures, the intellectual elite who spoke Latin, were highly organised motivators and keepers of culture; they read nature and the sciences through observation alone. Nature spoke directly to the Druids, an original eco community who control knowledge of time and the science of plants and healing; but their deeper traditions of oral language became obscured by the written word and the dominance of Christianity.

FIG 9 Piccadilly Circus Circus 2012

Randomly walking through Piccadilly I noticed an unusual feeling of quiet emptiness, no cars, closed roads and high zipwires connecting buildings. A feeling of expectation built in the twilight. Angels appeared overhead and the space around Eros filled with feathers, I was standing in the centre of this familiar but now crowded place experiencing the strangest sensations of thick, warm, drifting, snow.

In The Eyes of the Skin the author Juhani Pallasmaa discusses this shift away from a primordial oral culture and how it neglects our unconscious relationship and response to space, 'Vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it'. He continues that our encounters with place and our 'being-in-the-world' is how many artists express observations through an engagement with pre-verbal meanings.

quotes Maurice Merleau-Ponty describing his 'osmotic relation between the self and the world'. 'I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once'.

Yve-Alain Bois quoted in Iconoclast'One must learn to 'visualise clearly'to see only the relations that link things together and to the world as a whole, so as, eventually, "to recreate" abstractly the same type of relations'

FIG 10 Dune 1 1909 Oil on canvas

The artist Piet Mondrian concerned with the relationship of perception, space rhythm and movement worked on a series of drawings in Domberg while in isolation during the war 1914 and 1915, where his ideas were in transition during this period.

He studied the movement of ocean on the shore with its eternal and rhythmic balance, five years earlier in 1909-10. Here his Dune paintings; empty of all signs of man, flowed uninterrupted horizontally across and off the sides of the canvas; the movement appearing endless and eternal without signs of human presence. The high central area of focus and symmetry of brush strokes implies 'a vanishing point to evoke the enormous space of the sea and sky' writes John Milner Mondrian 1992 . Mondrian worked continuously observing the shifting mass of sea or shore, always searching for simpler ways to explain the visual rhythms that concern him and remaining interested in what these observation could reveal about the real world and painting.

He further simplified the motion and rhythm of the sea, in summer 1912, when briefly in Domberg again, this time removing the stabilizing effect of the foreground.

FIG 11 The Sea 1912 oil on canvas

Here the structure with the horizon at rest is without any opposition but as he continually returns to observe the sea at Domberg, he develops the Pier and Ocean drawings with a new awareness. In emphasising the intensity of vertical lines the horizontal becomes accentuated and Mondrian achieves an absolute equilibrium.

FIG 12 Pier and Ocean 3 1914 Charcoal on paper

Mondrian continued to explore methods of composition in his Pier and Ocean drawings in 1914. According to Milnerseveral elements could be explained by current thinking at the time. He describes how the oval or the square divided by a cross could be associated with Theosophistsymbolism or Cubism; the ellipse can be read as a circle in perspective; the spacing of horizontal lines indicate distance; the foreground is moving towards the viewer as the central pier structure is shown cleverly retreating back into the sea. However, all of these close observations are also discovered through immense concentration by Mondrian directly at the scene.

"On a walk beside the ocean, late evening, under a radiant, starry sky, he took a tiny sketchbook out of his pocket and made a scribbled drawing of a starry night" describes Mies Elout-Drabble.

Mondrian was an observer of life saysJohn Milner in his introduction, driven 'to discern an underlying structure in the world and to indicate this, as a mathematician might by means of the fewest, clearest elements available'.Working from what he sees, his experiences of what he is surrounded by; he makes visible in the painting for the viewer to experience.

'Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals' quoted J. Joosten in Abstraction and compositional Innovation, he continues '...impressed by the vastness of nature, I was trying to express its expansion rest and unity'.

The many small lines and crossings create a visual rhythm where neither the horizontal or vertical lines dominate. The image itself is totally flat, loosening at the edges but held in place by a visual tension across the surface. The opposition of lines create continual movement as your eye wanders around they appear to shift and flow; to swell and expand; into a massive space. The line no longer depicts something else; symbolism or art technique; image and structure have become equal,'visually the work shifts and pulsates before the eye like a living organism. It breathes'.

FIG 13 Composition 10 in Black and White 1915 Oil on Canvas

Mondrian created his paintings from intense observation and direct experiences of his surroundings throughout his life. His drawings and paintings provide those experiences for each individual viewer via their own specific and identifiable references to place.

Time Team'walking the Ridgeway on theJurassic coast, looking for a clearer understanding of the realities of early life here. They walk, think, feel the experience of living on the Ridgeway; using a method not normally addressed by traditional archaeologists. Phenomenological archaeological fieldwork examines the sensory experience of landscape and is concerned with the past everyday experience of living in a domestic context. Sue Hamilton explains that Phenomenology could be considered `subjective' and `unscientific' but 'our particular approach might be used to further understandings of past lives'.

The idea of 'space is more abstract than place' ,undifferentiated space accesses thoughts of openness, freedom, and the possibility of threat.
Knowledge and experience creates place 'if we think of space as that which allows movement, then place is pause; each pause in movement makes it possible for location to be transformed into place'

The word 'vast' replaces any specific space but retains the physical experience of it; 'vast' describes a mind image, attaching references of knowledge, culture and recognition of experiences. A visually impaired reader also recalls their response because according to Baudelaire vast evokes all imagined properties at once and contains all reference of experience for an immediate connection. In my early years only close detail explained what I saw, undiagnosed severe myopia denied a distant space. Gaston Bachelard has considered Baudelaire's use of the word 'vast' at length in The Poetics of Space . Noticing how he uses it frequently to add grandeur in a statement, it 'contains a complex of images that deepen one another'. or used like a breath to give infinite calm in the reader's thoughts. 'Vast' can create a pause in the text.

This notion of vastness,the vastness of an ocean or space is perceived as a whole and not seen directly.Linked to our memory of auditory space and freedom of movement; our senses expand and enlarge spatial awareness allowing an endless expanse of space, implying distance. Location, direction, distance relate to man, gaining importance through their accessibility. As I look 'out there' a distance is introduced, I am here, they, are over there, this is here and 'that' in conversation indicates a remote topic. We judge distance in relation to ourselves, learning how far is a stone's throw, or in shouting distance and the length of time a day's journey takes?

Walking from A-B contains both past and future, each step is directional but the future goal also gives time a direction, it looks ahead.

FIG 14 Cader Idris Photo P.J. Evans

Slowly walking up Cader Idris, an American dad and his children comes striding past, chanting a US Marine song, we follow along, surprised at how much easier it makes getting to the top. The rhythmic sounds can negate our awareness of time and effort as the body movement synchronises with the sound, 'cancelling a sense of purposeful action' andlocation loses its relevance, here to there time becomes hidden in the rhythm.

The experience of walking and looking transformed the sculpture and drawings of Richard Serra. A visit to the Japanese Zen gardens in Kyoto, 1970 connected with his thoughts on sculpture and reinforced his understanding and concerns of space and the body. Here he discovered the fluid design, lacking a fixed vantage point altered the way the viewer gathered visual information while moving through the pathways. This constantly changing and temporal vision is understood as being peripatetic in Zen Gardens; they are not expected to be seen traditionally as a single framed scene.

As in his sculptures Serra requires his drawings to shift a viewer's physical and visual perception of the space they inhabit, making their presence felt, in the 'here and now'.These large drawings do not represent another place but are made using a non-referential language, they speak for themselves.

Making, thinking andlooking explains Serra's process of drawing, concerned with a sense of how space functions; he explores a physical tension between parts. An awareness of gravity remains evident in the weight of suspended forms pushed together. The light absorbing pigment and black grainy texture emphasises their density and connects them to the space where the direct experience and material richness of the drawings develop their own importance. 'blackness is a property not a quality'.

In his large round drawings Serra is exploring a sense of touch,exposing the imperfections of a moving arm, residue remains as form and matter. Negating the pictorial traditions of representation, the contemporary dialogue between figure and ground is eliminated and pushes the drawing into actual space; like wallpaper it becomes about the space it inhabits.

FIG 15 Installation view Richard Serra Drawing: A retrospective, 2011. Courtesy of SFMOMA
Photo: Ian Reeves

FIG 16 Serra's out of round 1999, Paintstick on Hiromi paper

On entering The Courtauld Gallery to see the exhibition, Mondrian and Nicholson in Parallel; I notice a group of singers quietly setting up in corners throughout the exhibition, preparing for a one off performance. I'm handed a flyer, Extraordinary Voices Experimental vocal music by John Cage and Christopher Fox, I wonder how the sounds will affect the space between the paintings of the two friends? As the gallery fills with unusual sound andI quietly wind my way through the crowd, musical rhythms emphasise differences in my response to the two painters.

FIG 17 Ben Nicholson untitled 1937 Oil on canvas

Nicholson has set up a calm space, my eye flows around the surface gentle interruptions of depth or colour that radiates outwards, towards the centre or in circular movement.

FIG 18 Piet Mondrian Composition with Yellow and Blue 1932 Oil on canvas

Mondrian's flat surfaces appear to possess movement contained as a rhythm within the whole. Christopher Green describes this in the exhibition catalogue as 'The pulse of movement experienced not in space but in time'. Mondrian opens up the centre of the painting by shifting colour towards the edges and threatening stability. Yves-Alain Bois in The Iconoclast sees this as 'always on the point of being "undone" even when finished'.

Both artists were concerned with the idea of painting as a flat art and the viewer's responses to surface and rhythm.In Mondrian's paintingsforms and colours have different dimensions and positions but as they are all equal in value, colour plane, non-colour plane, vertical and horizontal line; they compete on the flat surface and no one force is allowed to dominate.

FIG 19 Victory Boogie Woogie (unfinished) 1942-1944 Oil and paper on canvas

I have rambled along making good progress, looking, noticing, thinking and uncovering interesting connections from artists and writers.

Towards the end of his life Mondrian returned to New York, influenced by this move to the city his work continued to transform as he struggled to abolish the line as form. In 1942 he started his last painting Victory Boogie Woogie, and still dissatisfied, he states, 'but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it'. When asked by his friend Carl Holtywhy he often destroyed everything from the night before, Mondrian revealed his lifelong motivation 'I don't want pictures. I just want to find things out.' ³⁹

Mondrian's 'abstract-real' paintings are a result of sensory stimuli encoded in the artist's memory. In drawing; marks or gesture evoke recognition, connecting to a viewer's individual sensory recall, enabling discovery and explanation of properties, volume, mark, surface, rhythm ... space or object; all inform the viewer of its position to the world.

FIG 20 Contained landscape with curved horizon 2012 Jill Evans

As we navigate our world throughout our everyday experiences, we notice and unconsciously store a residue of differences , differences that consist of the smallest molecule of information. This residue of differences; my rationale (to expose through drawing); is activated in the viewer, connecting thoughts, allowing recollection, uncovering ideas that create understanding and meaning in art - traditional, abstract or conceptual.

In Turner's Footsteps, Through the hills and dales of Northern England David Hill 1984 Guild publishers Ltd London p.12 - found book in Oxfam

Sailor Stone, National trust viewed 29/12/12 http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/history/view-page/item633510/253985/ The bodies of three men were hung on Gibbet hill.
In 1786 a sailor was brutally murdered by three men which he had befriended (in a local pub in Thursley) whilst walking from London to the docks in Portsmouth. Soon after the murder a stone was erected to mark the spot where the poor sailor met his death.

Yve-Alain Bois, The Iconoclast in Yve-Alain Bois and Joop Joosten, 1994.
Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press p.318

Mondrian, John Milner 1992 Phaidon Press Ltdp.118

Tuan, Yi-Fi, 1977. Space and Place. Minneapolis and London:
University of Minnesota Press p.7

Bachelard, Gaston, 1958. The Poetics Of Space. Edition 1994. Boston Massachusetts: Beacon Press. Foreward by John R. Stilgoe. p.196

Green, Christopher, and Wright, Barnaby, 2012. Mondrian and Nicholson in Parallel. London: Courtauld Gallery p.31

FIG I Worms Head Fig 1 Worms Head Photo P.J. Evans 2009

FIG 2 Landscape scenes in pen and wash attributed to Claude Lorraine 1600-1682 http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/d/drawing-techniques-claude-glass

FIG 3 From the bank of a river,
watercolour by Reverend
William Gilpin1724-1804 Victoria and Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/d/drawing-techniques-claude-glass

FIG 6 Sailor Stone Hindhead - photo Jill Evans 2012

FIG 7 Devils cauldron view from Gibbet Hill, Hindhead Jill Evans 2012

FIG 8 Druids Grove Ancient Yew Tree - photo P.J. Evans 2012

FIG 11 The Sea 1912 oil on canvas p.123, Yve-Alain, and Joosten, Joop, 1994. Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press.

FIG 12 Pier and Ocean 3 1914 Charcoal on paper p.163, Yve-Alain, and Joosten, Joop, 1994. Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press.

FIG 13 Composition 10 in Black and White 1915 Oil on Canvas p.169, Yve-Alain, and Joosten, Joop, 1994. Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press.

FIG 14 Cader Idris Photo P.J. Evans 2010

FIG 16 Serra's out of round 1999, Paintstick on Hiromi paper http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions

FIG 17 Ben Nicholson untitled 1937 Oil on canvas p.131, Green, Christopher, and Wright, Barnaby, 2012. Mondrian and Nicholson in Parallel. London: Courtauld Gallery .

FIG 18 Piet Mondrian Composition with Yellow and Blue 1932 Oil on canvas p.93, Green, Christopher, and Wright, Barnaby, 2012. Mondrian and Nicholson in Parallel. London: Courtauld Gallery .

FIG 19 Victory Boogie Woogie (unfinished) 1942-1944 Oil and paper on canvas p.296, Yve-Alain, and Joosten, Joop, 1994. Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press.

FIG 20Contained landscape with curved horizon 2012 Jill Evans Ink on Paper cups.

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Bois, Yve-Alain, and Joosten, Joop, 1994. Piet Mondrian. New York: Bulfinch Press.

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R3, Friday 30 th Nov 2012. Agricolous Piers Hellawell,classic music written from looking at David Smith paintings modular structures/units and line. Commissioned by Robert Plane 2008/Ulster orchestra

Sailor Stone, National trust viewed 29/12/12 http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/history/view-page/item633510/253985/ Soon after the murder a stone was erected to mark the spot where the poor sailor met his death.
In 1786 a sailor was brutally murdered by three men which he had befriended (in a local pub in Thursley) whilst walking from London to the docks in Portsmouth.

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This is a padlet all about the Psychology Bath Art project