Thorns from there, slate from here

Thorn Line

Fault Line

Site as self

My work is site specific but it is also personal.  I am finding that I am increasingly drawing on other landscapes to inform my work for many reasons - such as emotional or historical resonance.  I am building on past experience and where I find myself in this new landscape.  It is my journey.  It is how I am affected.

Quarry

On the hill is a quarry which is slowly blasting the rock away.  Hill is becoming basin.  The 'historical fabric' of the landscape is being changed.  We are experiencing a physical transformation of the countryside.  

Positive space is becoming negative space.

Convex to concave.

Emptiness where once solid.

Earth becomes air - birds will fly where slow worms once slithered.

The poetry of emptiness.

View from a French Hill

I've just spent time in France, getting to grips with a new landscape and my reaction to it.  The quality of the light was very different as was the warmth.

I managed to create some small works, which I may show on the open day; as a way of recording the summer and my reaction to landscape in general.

Open Day

I've managed to secure a space to hold an open day to show what work has been created over the summer.  The open day will be on Tuesday 15th September!  It's strange to be thinking about the end of a project when you're only just getting to grips with it...