Field Notes: Walking the Territory

(Hardback)

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Field Notes **is the record of a territory in full colour: a book of words and artworks that capture a year spent on foot in the Lincolnshire landscape.

It is about topography and time. Chalk and flint and marsh. The coming and going of the sea, Neolithic farmers and the razzle-dazzle of weary coastal towns. It is as much about the ghost of a mammoth as it is the scream of a jet fighter, heading east. Each image is a still from a film a film that is under constant production inside Maxim Peter Griffins skull.

Griffins art is about taking somewhere and looking at it over and over so that with each looking it becomes strange and new. As well as being a testament to the isolated beauty of Lincolnshire itself, *Field Notes *is an extraordinary account of what it is like to be present in, to fully inhabit, a place.

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The art of Maxim Peter Griffin attunes itself to the spirit of a place. Or is it spirits Griffin's is a strange, playful, stubborn kind of vision - in the best tradition of Stanley Spencer or Eric Ravilious. He animates landscape, brings pylons to life' Tom Jeffreys, author of Signal Failure

Author Bio

Maxim Peter Griffin is an artist, illustrator and writer based in Lincolnshire. The first phase of his Field Notes was a regular feature on Caught by the River and he writes monthly articles on his looking for Lincolnshire Life magazine. He has collaborated with writer Gary Budden on two books about the Kentish landscape.

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