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India

In Lines from Nature John writes of his visit to the Bandhavgarh Nature Reserve in northern India.

” I have only seen a small part of Madhya Pradesh, but I suspect that for all who have been to India, the reality leaves a confused impression – the pressures of a teeming population; dust, noise, colour, smells, golden light, a resilient but fatalistic spirit in the struggle for existence.

The seeming chaos of human life contrasts with the calm of wild India. Jungles which once dominated large areas are now preserved as diminishing islands in the sea of humanity. Here, the animals can live their own lives, if humans allow, and among them the tiger is still ‘Lord of the Jungle’: but for how long?…

…Whether my work gets close to a true image of India I don’t know. Like my childhood miming of the action of animals and birds, I feel that my drawing has to prowl, spring and fly; launching into the empty whiteness of a page with marks that may grow – sometimes becoming clear and meaningful in the process; sometimes disappearing behind a confused undergrowth of thoughts. Not all our experiences can be resolved in art, yet many remain, like tigers, to haunt us all our lives.”

Brown Fish Owl, Bandhavgarh 1997
signed watercolour 30 x 25 cm £450 buy now
Charger in the Jungle
signed watercolour 35 x 42 cm £500 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.81
Childhood Tiger, 1935/1997
signed watercolour 30 x 25 cm companion to the illustration in Lines from Nature p76
Eating and Standing Tiger Studies 1997
signed drawing 50 x 40 cm £600 buy now original illustration from "Tigers" Artists for Nature Foundation p46
Langur Monkeys Running 1997
signed watercolour 23 x 30 cm £350 buy now
Langur Monkeys with baby
watercolour unsigned 23 x 31 cm £300 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.88
Langurs and Spotted Deer 1997
signed watercolour 33 x 24 cm £350
Lesser Adjutant and White-necked Storks 1997
signed watercolour 22 x 26 cm £400
Off duty elephant
unsigned drawing 17 x 17 cm in mount 30cm sq £150 buy now original from Lines from Nature p.80
Peacock in the Jungle 1998
signed pastel 33 x 25cm £450
Red Sandstone Cliffs and Tiger
watercolour unsigned 18 x 25 cm £200 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.86
Resting Tiger 1997
signed drawing 23 x 35 cm £500 buy now
Sita and Spotted Deer
signed watercolour 23 x 34 cm (in mount 37 x 47cm) £500 illustration from Lines from Nature p.82
Sita in the Jungle (Tiger in the shade)
signed watercolour and accompanying sketch page 23 x 31cm (watercolour) £350 buy now original illustration from Lines from Nature p.84 & 85
Standing Tiger
Signed watercolour 8 x 18 cm £150 buy now
Sita running 1998
signed watercolour 24 x 35 cm £350 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.81
Tiger resting in the Jungle I 1998
signed watercolour 35 x 28 cm £400 buy now
Tiger resting in the Jungle II 1997
signed watercolour 25 x 25 cm £400 buy now
Tiger running 1
signed pastel 20 x 28 cm £350
Tiger running II
signed watercolour 20 x 30 cm £400 buy now
Tiger sharpening claws
unsigned watercolour 20 x 25 cm £300 buy now
Tiger walking
signed watercolour 20 x 28 cm £400
Village in India 1997
unsigned watercolour 23 x 40 cm £300 buy now
Villagers and Elephant
watercolour unsigned 16 x 20 £350 buy now illustration from Lines from Nature p.87
Woolly-necked Stork
signed watercolour 39 x 29 cm £350

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