ECHOES OF THE WOODS
Drawn in Tooting - David Mumby
29 Oct to 9 Nov: Private View Wednesday 30 October
The 2020 lockdown took me back into the woods of Tooting Common, where I live and where I had spent many wonderful playful times when my children were small boys. I love the quietude of the woods, its intimacy, its short-cuts, the bird song, its seasonal changes and I have since spent long periods walking and sitting there, drawing, painting, writing.
My works are always made in situ, responding intimately and sensually to the place, its textures, its sounds, its colours and light. I work in different seasons, often in sequences within books. I hope all is steeped in this little landscape, imbued with a sense of place.
My books document in words and images my walks through those woods, not mapped walks, nor grand visitas, but the serendipitous quotidian glances, the sylvan surprises in very urban woods. Some of those glances have latterly become stained glass panels, in which I hope to capture the light flooding through the trees. And some have evolved, most recently, into little printed books, @muddypress, playful, tactile, and in the case of ripples scribbles, a book purely of drifting riverine words.
A further body of work also has its origins during lockdown, a series of studies from my allotment and garden, celebrating growth and nature during that difficult time. And Giovanni, my local delicatessen, remained open throughout, suppling me with a delightful variety of fruits and vegetables, both for my table and for my studio. Concertinas of drawn and painted views are also central to much of my work realised on the Greek island of Alonnisos, where each summer I draw and paint, and swim.
Website davidmumby.com Instagram @mumbyart
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