Black-a-Tor Copse
Click through the gallery below to discover Jo Minoprio’s response to the long strip of ancient woodland
Black-a-Tor Copse contains ancient stunted and twisted oak trees. It occupies the steep western slope of a river valley on remote moorland which is otherwise treeless. The close-growing tangled oaks and huge tumbled granite boulders, clothed in moss and lichen, create a sense of timelessness, stillness and intimacy. The landscape around is a windswept expanse of open moorland. High-altitude oak woods such as this are restricted to western Britain and only three occur in the south-west
Black-a-Tor Copse – Ancient Oak
Linocut, 43 x 53 cm
Jo Minoprio lives high up on Exmoor where she has a studio and gallery space. Beech trees and hedges are her passion, and she captures them using watercolour, ink and woodblock printing. ‘We think of our Exmoor landscape as being natural and wild, when actually the endless miles of hedgerows have been modelled by man, forming exquisite sculptures of our time.’
Jo Minoprio lives high up on Exmoor where she has a studio and gallery space.
Beech trees and hedges are her passion, and she captures them using watercolour, ink and woodblock printing.
Minoprio says: ‘We think of our Exmoor landscape as being natural and wild, when actually the endless miles of hedgerows have been modelled by man, forming exquisite sculptures of our time.’
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