The biggest capstone in the British Isles, I believe, looking like a giant weetabix.
Jane
JMWTurner, one of the finest painters England ever produced, made this painting of Stonehenge in 1811.
Image credit: Joseph Mallord William Turner
This is a section of the Ridgeway between Wayland’s Smithy and Uffington Castle, which you can see up on the horizon.
Here’s an ‘imagined’ aerial view (using a tiny, scummy aerial photograph and OS maps to help!) of the entire range of beauty on display at Uffington: the Manger, Dragon Hill, the Ridgeway, the White Horse and the magnificent Uffington Castle hillfort. An eagle’s eye view!
Image credit: 'Ancient Uffington' by Jane Tomlinson, 21 April 2003
A simple, but quite long watercolour painting of seven selected stones in no particular order except I just like their shape.
handmade monoprint, tinted with watercolour
Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
In this original watercolour painting, I was trying to express the whooshing feeling of speed that you get when you actually ride very fast through open fields and to imagine that the Uffington white horse was my mount....
Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
treaclechops stands on all that’s left of Churchill Copse long barrow
An aerial view showing the Avenue.
This image was taken from my friend Jim’s light aircraft.
Here’s me crawling down the passageway. My curvaceous size 16 figure made it through even the narrowest parts!
Image credit: Treaclechops
Some of the largest stones have fallen, allowing water to pool in abstract shapes on their surfaces.
Limited edition handmade collagraph and drypoint print by Jane Tomlinson
A hasty watercolour sketch from my sketchbook
Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
‘Wiltshire Temple’ – this painting is of mixed media (collagraph, watercolour, chine colle and embossing).
Image credit: Jane Tomlinson
Look beyond the stone to the right and you’ll see the old cross which was meant to abate the evil influence of the ancient stone...
Image credit: Jane
My kids, Rupert and Cleo, pose awkwardly upon their mother’s strict instructions: “It’s for scale-purposes!”
Image credit: Jane
This is one a series of collagraph prints I have made using a ‘chine’colle’ technique: the addition of random strips of collaged paper on the plate prior to printing provides the interesting textures...
Image credit: Collagraph (handmade print) by Jane
The wonderful treaclechops took this of me painting the Hawk
Image credit: Rebecca van der Putt
In this painting, I was trying to express the big, rolling skies of that part of Oxfordshire and the way that the aspect of this lonely stone can change in a second as the sun peeks through the skyscape...
Commissioned by Celia Haddon.
Image credit: Painted by Jane Tomlinson