Rurban//Ways Through An Outskirts Estate

 "Tarmac paths
fissured &
patched"













"green-glow
august sun"

 "wrecked
pushchair kneeling in
nettles"

"windows doomed wooden
with boards"

 "a dog-growl close
behind a creosote-drenched
fence"

 "bent
& rusty bmx"

"up a scorched cherry tree
black"

 "bent-over nails in an oak's
trunk"

 "blue polypropylene rope tied"

"to a brick tangled
in an ancient hawthorne above"

 "the hot soft
smell of drying
grass-cuttings"

"& petrol"















My paintings are an abstract interpretation of the poem 'Ways Through An Outskirts Estate' in the book of poems written by Mark Goodwin (family friend and Leicestershire poet).
All done in oil paints and presented in a handmade book, alongside the quotes from the poem, which I have rearranged slightly to fit with my interpretations.