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Sun Tree Beginning layers images and signs. A tree of life, whose raw, fleshy form comes from a 12th-century fresco of the Garden of Eden held in Madrid’s Prado Museum, is compared to a shaky diagram which could equally be a timber construction or a road map. John Reynolds ranges freely over grids and coordinates, his visual sources have an

international scope. With lurid colours that evoke blood or advertising, he creates a map of veins, or city streets. ‘It’s an ongoing fascination for me . . . the ways geography and history

get smudged.’