Drawings – Sue Purcell

Walking the Dernol

sheet notes 1 of 2

media: edding ink, derwent studio pencils, graph paper, draw film. SIZE: 42 X 29.7 cm

the music of musing:

through thoughts of flora, fauna & colours.

sheet notes 2 of 2

media: edding ink, derwent studio pencils, graph paper, draw film. SIZE: 42 X 29.7 cm

mapping & musing: BATS, BIRDS & BURROWS

Mid Wales: over view of the DERNOL VALLEY area.

media: found map, pencil, crayon, paper, hardboard. size: 40 x 40cm

Collage of data: recording bats, ringing birds, text & other musings focused in the Dernol Valley.
With thanks to Ceri Jones Conservation Ecologist BTO ‘c’ permit bird ringer & Elinor Parry from Protected Species Ecology Ltd for bat technology.

detail # 1 Spotted flycatchers returned to our garden and made their home in the nest box on our bungalow. They had five young and were kindly ringed by Ceri, in June 2019: their numbers are shown here also indicating the area of the Dernol valley.

detail # 2 Banc Dolhelfa is a landslide view that I see everyday from my kitchen window. I walked three quarters of the way up and was nicely surprised to find a medium sized thin piece of mudstone. This caught my eye because it had trace fossil trails: evidence of worm burrows made in the Silurian period 450 ma ago.

detail # 3 These are the results of bat recordings: common & soprano pipistrelle & at least one species of myotis bat species in the Dernol valley area. Analysed recordings were kindly done by Elinor in October 2018.

detail # 4 I have done many walks in the Dernol valley and there is a Site of Special Scientific Interest GWEUNYDD NANT Y DERNOL opposite to my home. There are otters (lutra lutra) bullhead (cottus gobia) and it provides important habitat for spawning & juvenile Atlantic salmon (salmo salar), unusual species of flora include: dyer’s green weed, wood-bitter vetch & fairy flax. More details are on the Dernol Valley website at dernolvalley.org.

Geology

Artist in Residence at the Wyeside Arts Centre VOLCANIC GLASS Essence of Pitchstone in a corner

Work in progress: AIR Wyeside Arts Centre during solo show ‘Outside In’ . Inspired by volcanic glass called PITCHSTONE

From a to b TRAVELOGUES

Viewing Point ~ mountain road between Llanidloes & Machynlleth

Pontrobert

Details below from the travelogue series:

DETAIL From a to b TRAVELOGUE Elan Valley — Elan Valley

detail: ‘From a to b TRAVELOGUE Viewing Point’ — Viewing Point on mountain road between Llanidloes & Machynlleth.

From a to b TRAVELOGUE Viewing Point — Viewing point on mountain road between Llanidloes & Machynlleth.

Insects & Arachnids

Glandernol Dragonfly. Drawing for ‘Postcard Portraits’ Big Draw Exhibition – October 2005 International Centre for Wildlife Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall Twigworth Gloucester.

Spider with teasel seed head. Pencil on hand-made paper. 21 x 27 cm Donated to Radnorshire Museum Gallery – BIG DRAW fund-raising event in October 2015

Flora

SEEDS that's the order of things — SEEDS that’s the order of things

Fossils

These sea lily fossil drawings were inspired by the Radnorshire Museum’s fossil collection in Llandrindod Wells, Powys. They became part of my solo exhibition there ‘Fossils & Co’ . The graptolite is from my own collection found in Lower Llanwaur Quarry on a fossil group field trip in Llandrindod Wells.

Essence of a Graptolite. Pencil on paper. 61 x 86 cm

Sea Lily #2 — Sea Lily # 2. Pencil on paper. 61 x 86 cm

Sea Lilies. Collage of prints and pencil on paper. 61 x 86 cm

Installation during my solo show at the museum called ‘Millenia – frieze fragments’. It is a collage of combined fossil rubbings I produced from my collection and the museums.

Nests

DRAWN TOGETHER outdoors — ‘DRAWN TOGETHER found nest & fallen oak’ outdoors in Glandernol garden. Wax & pencil on paper with found branches. Height: 150 cm x diameter variable.

‘DRAWN TOGETHER found nest & fallen oak’ – wax & pencil on paper. Found nest from Glandernol garden and fallen oak from Moccas Park, Herefordshire. Height: 150 cm x Diameter: 40 cm

Found nest (detail 3) — Found nest (detail 1)

Shells

Abstract

The Necks Inspired by hearing the Australian band The Necks at Colston Hall in Bristol, 2016