"Les Périades" is a pencil drawing on paper which continues my practice of making painstaking studio drawings to try to make sense of complex terrain - primarily of places that I have walked or climbed in, but also from images of places that I aspire to explore.

Les Périades is a sharp and heavily-pinnacled mountain ridge, stretching for over 1,500 metres in the Mont Blanc massif in Haute-Savoie, France.

This new drawing of the ridge was exhibited in the Reid Gallery in the exhibition "Mother Curator" between 10-31 January 2026 along with “Duration - 186 days, & 179 days”, – silverpoint & gesso on Board + oil on board respectively, and Map – Oil and gesso on board - all works that dealt with an aspect of an obsession with mountains, ice and the North.

• https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/...
• https://www.lesleypunton.com/