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ART WORDS
INSPIRATION BEHIND THE WORK

Dawn Vista,

Hetty Haxworth

SPRINGTIME IN RURAL ABERDEENSHIRE IS the composition into a
beautifully colourful. Daffodil fields and oilseed rape cover collage or drawing and
the landscape in a patchwork of yellows and greens. Patterns then eventually into a
are there to be sought out and found. Small Christmas trees print.
polka-dot the terracotta earth, regular furrows provide To capture the inten-
stripes, and tall sinuous grasses catch the eye as the wind sity of colour in my
jostles them. prints requires the over-
Framing this scene are the man-made structures, the rigid laying of several flat tones to build up vibrancy. The journey
lines of fences and the cattle barns, turning the landscape into is an uncertain one and I often find myself adjusting colours
a geometric study. On dark, brooding days, the sun moves by overprinting extra tones to make the hues vibrate against
from between the clouds to light up sections of the terrain each other. Usually, only at the end, when it is all printed,
for just a moment – a glimpse of intense colour – while the does the effect reveal itself. For me the simplicity of the work
shadows turn the ploughed fields into rich greys and browns. comes from a direct feeling, a response to a moment.
This print is one of a series that documents the move ment Hetty Haxworth graduated from Glasgow School of Art in and is
of light over my local landscape, capturing a moment in colour. now based in Aberdeenshire. Her work can be seen at Oxford’s O Gallery
When I return to my studio each day, I turn my memory of from October to November

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