White Horse, Uffington (watercolour on paper 70cm x 50cm)
(pen sketch 15cm x 15cm)
A view from the horse's eye, overlooking a strange landscape. Below us, Dragon Hill, a chalk hillock with an artificially flattened summit, where St.George slew the dragon, and the Manger, a geographical feature carved out by the retreating ice at the end of the last Ice Age. The figure of the horse itself is a wonderful piece of artwork, carved into the hillside and filled with chalk. Nobody knows why it was created - a tribal boundary sign perhaps? - and recent evidence indicates it dating from the the late Bronze Age.
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