Landscape Visions

  M + J M - Opera set design model, 'Lohengrin', act 3, bride room. In Neues Schloss Herrenamsee, Bavaria.  J - Chilly's water bottle logo

Test rendering using a hand drawing, with lasso and bucket fill.  The drawing style means the rendering is bound by the drawing, sitting slightly back amongst the line work. It is a quick process and means similar colouration can be applied throughout sequential sketches. The drawings require more people and shadowing to create a more vibrant and descriptive scene. Colour choices need improving to describe depth or change of space. Overall it seems effective and benefits my preference to hand drawing scenes over digitally media. 

Testing Fabriano watercolour pencils as a possible rendering media for the project. Though more practise is needed, generally the colours are very vibrant and definative. They are easier to control and position than watercolours. However they do not overlay and blend into other colours well. Each pencil colour, though made more vibrant with adding water, is very much the hue and shade you get. Unsure whether this is suitable for my style at present 

Sir Jeffery Jellicoe experienced Classicism, Modernism and Postmodernism eras as a Landscape Architect, realising before many architectures of the time the deep theoritical processes behind designing and creating extraordinary places for people. Integating the visible and invisible world became a key methodology.  Jellicoe was able to fuse his knowledge of these artistic eras with the Kennedy Memorial project at Runnymede, UK. Here, he rejects ‘form follows function’ principles, and instead creates a ‘post-modernism’ experience which fuses japanese zen gardenmaking, Christian Pilgrim’s Progress waymaking with classical landscape elements. This pathway leads to a more modernist experience, with the Kennedy Memorial Stone sculpted as a slightly distorted ‘floating’ funerary slab, speaking Kennedy’s name. Of greatest note are granite setts which form the pathway. This uneven, already seemingly ancient pathway shows Jellicoe’s deep understanding of invisble forces such as time. This pa...

L + V L - Ohlstadt Wasserfall and Quarry area.  V - The One Ring at the Heldinnen und Helen (Heroines and Heroes) exhibition in Rosenhiem, Germany

 In Adrian Geuze's acceptance of the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2022, he spoke about his practise, West 8, being deeply rooted in a systems approach to designing spaces for the public. 'engineer meets poet'. He identifies landscape architecture as a prominent defender of public space, to mitigate and create places for people which deal with the social environment and economic demands of the age. Maxima Park, in Utrecht in the Netherlands, is one such example to systems thinking landscape architecture. Maxima park is weaved through the settlement of Ulrecht, creating a multitude of spaces for the public to use, engage with and get lost amongst. The park is interlink through the waterways and wetlands which conceal and reveal different landscaping in which a great variety of social activities can be done. The freezing over of this waterway conjoins the landscape in a new way, the park and people able to adapt and enjoy the vast seasonal shifts. The public space here ...

Some more practise drawing Japanese spaces, plus some quick Ink drawings. This was very enjoyable to create a quick minimal space and place a person to give scale and feeling.  The garden drawn is one in Chion-in, Kyoto, at the top of a steep granite staircase with a cemetery tuck further behind the building

30 mins to capture the space in the arid garden room in the Wintergarten of the Botanisher Garten Munchen. To build the space quickly, a Japanese style ink pen brush was used. The perspective is good, though it's hard to build more subtle elements between the cacti with this artstyle

N - soaped-up Warhammer model, to clear grease off before undercoating W - Horsehoof prints on Mitchinhampton Common