The Dreamer site The Northern Summer House

He was placed by the second from left window-gap in hedge.- He is looking out to sea, a wheelbarrow by his side.

This key figure represents that lull in the day, a pause for thought which gives the all the action of the day some validity. Millet painting The Angelus informed my work, the unseen feeling. I used other Millet drawings; Man with a hoe, Peasant Grafting a tree and The Sower and most importantly peasant with Scythe . + Gustave Courbets; The Stonebreakers, together with Vincent Van Goghs ;Digging peasant, Studies of diggers 1890 and the photographs taken at The Lost Gardens of Heligan My first site visit was on September 24th 1997. Looked at Raphaels drawings and Michelangelos back view of the statue of David, it is a long process from photographs to 10 inch wire twists, clay maquettes, steel armatures plaster and scrim/clay to full grown figures of men, fortunately I had a great team and advice from Leonardo da Vincis Codex Madrid-Movements of the soul; Do not make all muscles of your figure apparent, because even if they are in their right places they do not show prominently unless the limbs in which they are located are exerting great force or are greatly strained. Limbs which are not in exercise must be drawn without showing the play of the muscles. And if you do otherwise, you will have imitated a bag of nuts rather than a human figure.

Where nature finishes producing its shapes, there man begins, with natural things and with the help of nature itself, to create infinite varieties of shapes.

(leonardo Da Vinci notes Codex Madrid 1491-1505)