Original artwork description:

Night Pond, Anne Fox, Original abstract, landscape painting, 24 x 17", Fine Art

The whole painting surface is wax that has been drawn into and beneath, layered with the paint and pigment, reminding one of the slow processes of carbon storing, the layers of plant material and creatures, that are lying below the surface of the pond.

Materials Wax, Oil, Ink, Graphite

Dimensions 24 x 17 inches

61 x 44 cm

Year 2020

Series The Flow Project/Pond

Support Heavy Handmade Watercolour Paper

From the Flow Project 2020


At the beginning of March I recorded a large area of sphagnum that was growing below the surface of the water. A bright sun was causing rapid photosynthesis and bubbles of oxygen were rising from the plants. At the same time, we know that the plants were busy storing carbon and eliminating greenhouse gases such as methane. Recently much scientific attention and recognition has focussed on the vital actions of sphagnum in reducing greenhouse gases and maintaining a balanced environment.

Working from my videos taken below the surface of the pond, I made a series of abstract monotype prints. With monotypes, each print is unique, produced by painting and inking directly onto a plate, and pressing the paper onto it. Each time you press the paper it uses all the paint or ink and so you have to start again with a new image for the next print. What I found was that each image led on to the next, so that the series became like a timeline of film stills from the pond.

Original Art from Anne Fox

Materials used:

ink, graphite, carbon, gesso

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