![Oliver Brookes, No Overnight Camping, Wait at the Top, Hopetoun Hill , 2017](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1600,h_1600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite0124/usr/images/artworks/main_image/items/e0/e028354a38484775bca60478406959f2/ob_camping_2.jpg)
Oliver Brookes
Image size 41 x 30cm
On Friday mornings I would paint alone in the East Lothian landscape but on Tuesdays and Saturdays I would be hurtling through the same landscape with my club mates on my carbon Cinelli race bike desperately trying to hold onto the flying peloton.
These print works bring together the two experiences of the landscape, racing over it at speed and sitting still with it, taking time. Photography and screen-printing combine with the landscape watercolour to pull the two experiences together in a series called ‘Turn Left at the Parachutes’. This is a well-known cyclists’ short cut near Fenton Barns that might get you back in the peloton and give you a short break to view the sea and the hills.