If you have never been there, search up some images of the Standing Stones at Avebury, and you will instantly recognize why this spot was the visual inspiration for this Color Study. It is made up of the essential grassy circle in which the ancient construction of stones was laid out; the Sarsen stones are greyish-blue or blueish-grey. And, there is a town that runs right through it and out one side. The town has some highly recognizable white Tudor architecture and many beautiful historic structures, colorful shops and tourists.
There is another reason why this was of interest to me to explore artistically. This site is amoung only few in the world where the ancient, even prehistoric, co-exists with the modern in such exquisite visual harmony.
In the color studies – there is an anchor point, the tight group of colors. The colors are held to be the same in each exploratory dye bath and method, so when rejoined with the others, your eye is forced to see something it may otherwise have missed. How artistic method affects the final expression.
At Avebury, to me the anchor point is time. If you can stand in a place where such an immense expanse of time is represented and concentrated into such a small geographical space, then new feelings and expressions of humanity emerge “that you may have otherwise missed”. I think that is why people are drawn there to visit it and experience that.