The title of this post refers to a bookwork (or artists book) produced by David Tremlett in 1975. It consists of ‘twenty-eight views of the landscape, many drawn with a single line’. Each drawing is accompanied with a title such as ‘Near Landscove’. They remind me of a series of sketches that I made of Ilkley Moor in June this year. the sketches were part of the process of creating a full colour mono-screen print, but I kept the line drawings as I felt there was something of value in them.

The drawings are in charcoal on newsprint, so both very basic materials, and the aim was to capture the lines in the landscape. The rise and fall of the horizon line. The humps and bumps of the peat moorland and the dips and depressions where the cotton bog grass was in full bloom.

As a worked landscape the moor is also criss crossed with paths, water pipes and drystone walls.

In essence this is about distilling the landscape to its basic structure, its geometry. Also, in terms of my art practice, about distilling that to the basic stating point of all work, the making of a line.