AVEBURY 1. Valediction; 2. Arc Arcanum; 3. Avebury Stone; 4. Of Henge and Stone; 5. Avebury Henge & Stone; 6. Avebury: the Southern Circle; 7. Sarsen ARC ARCANUM oil on canvas | 40" x 32" | 2003 | £650 #P7 A3 & A4 | #GC10 Avebury is such a magnificent arena of vivid atmosphere that I was intrigued with the idea of using as few colours as possible, picking out the stark contrast of hewn stone against the tones of the background. I also wanted to highlight the relationship the circle's stones to the Devil's Chair and entrance to the henge. Shadows creeping in from far right hint at further megaliths and whilst the stone at the forefront is imposing, it is therefore not necessarily the focus. This image was used on the poster for the St Helens exhibition, Arcana of Stone, in 2004. AVEBURY STONE oil on board | 14" x 12" | 2002 | £NFS #P14 A4 AVEBURY HENGE & STONE ink | 11" x 8" | 2000 | £NFS #P31 A3 & A4 SUMMER SOLSTICE Taken just before dawn at Avebury in 2000CE, with the crowd within the southern circle and lining the bank. Terry, the Keeper of the Stones is warming up off screen left! AVEBURY: THE SOUTHERN CIRCLE ink | 11" x 7" | 2002 | £45 #P32 A4

AVEBURY, WILTSHIRE From the earliest surviving records of Aubrey and Stukeley in the C17 and C18 respectively, Avebury, also referred to in antiquity as Afa’s Burh, has been the subject of numerous theories, excavations and religious bigotry. The henge was constructed around 3000BCE, with a 65’ wide ditch varying from 20’ to 30’ in depth. Excavated by Gray in 1911, he found that it was flat-bottomed with a width of about 12’. The outer circle of stones was erected in approximately 2000BCE, initially comprising 98 local sandstone megaliths known as sarsens. Only 27 remain, the largest at the north east entrance weighing 40 tonnes and 13’ high. There are four entrances to Avebury, 50’ wide, with the famous Devil’s Chair at the southern entrance leading to the West Kennet Avenue. Within the outer circle lie two more: the southern, decimated by the removal of just about all its stones, measured 315’ in diameter and the northern 295’, which surrounded The Cove, of which only 2 stones remain. There is evidence that these actually predate the outer circle and that another circle was started and abandoned within the north-east boundary. Many of the sarsens were uncovered from where they had fallen or been toppled and re-erected by Keiller in the 1930s. And it's the only stone circle with a pub in the middle! OS: SU.102.699 On the A361 north from the A4 heading west from Marlborough in Wiltshire. VALEDICTION oil on board | 18" x 20" | 2002 | £NFS #LE8 print run 250 A3 | #GC46 (detail) OF HENGE & STONE oil on canvas | 8" x 12" | 2004 | £95 SARSEN photo | 11" x 7" | 2002 #LE27 print run 25 A4 Back to: The Gallery | Home