Strata of curiosity

A sketch of the view from Springfield Park, Hackney, noting railway, canal boats, marsh, people and trees

Time travel. It wasn’t what I expected from my free-range Friday.

But as I sketch walked my way from an exhibition recce at Springfield Park Café in Hackney, looking for a vantage point I found an information board about the geology of the view. On it was the logo I’d designed for London Geodiversity Partnership when it was formed in 2008.

I’d jumped at the project. Geology was a subject I’d picked at school because I wanted to know how landscapes were made.

The briefing had included a tour of a South London park where there’s a seam of shells, telling of ancient shallow sea.

And here, into my sketchbook went visual notes of the London landscape in front of me, lines of marsh, railway, canal boats, humans, trees…

Is that the end of the story? Never. In my curious creative life there’s a constant laying-down of knowledge, things experienced and things noticed.

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