EYNSHAM
Council & Community Issue 27 – October – November 2017
NEWS
The turning year Eric White (© image opposite) wrote in an earlier issue about an idea for a long-term art project to document the proposed site of the ‘Garden Village’. Now some eight months on, he has scores of canvases, sketches and photos, and a host of memories, from many excursions across the A40. He is looking forward to the mists and colours of autumn so that he can add yet another layer of interpretation to these few hundred acres and complete a nearly full calendar year. ‘I have had no political agenda as such, but with this tract of farmland threatened by development I simply wanted to record it through the seasons for the benefit of future generations, to show what we have and may have lost.’ In January I was out in the early morning with frost on the ground; the oblique rays of the sun did little to counteract the cold, so with ungloved hands it was often difficult to hold a pencil. This was a time when, with the prospect of development on the nottoo-distant horizon, the bare frames of the trees and hedgerows made the landscape look all the more vulnerable. Spring brought renewed hope with its profusion of blackthorn and hawthorn blossom in the hedges, and field margins decorated with the delicate lace of cow parsley. Continues overleaf
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