This book collects together fifteen paintings, prints and drawings of landscapes, all of which in some way use the imagery of sticks, stones, bricks or bones. One or more of these elements features on each page; sticks in a charcoal and pastel drawing entitled 'Sunlight filters through the arc of branches', sticks and stones in a pen and ink study of 'Pollarded trees and standing stones', the herring bone brick-work sketched in 'Detail of a wall in Boxgrove Priory'.

The book offers a feeling of contemplation of the artist's surroundings, each image a carefully observed rendering of the shapes and textures he sees. Latticeworks of branches, pillars and brickwork; the markings on a piece of flint; the arrangement of a group of standing stones, all are captured and echoed by the marks Norris makes on the paper, be it the cross-hatching of an etching or the strokes of paint in a stencilled print. In this way the artist presents a quiet sense of order, pattern and rhythm hidden amongst the apparent disorder of the environments he depicts.