February 12, 2025
In
SOIL SOUL 2024
Entranced with the unique colour and texture
of the soil of the Marchmont Estate grounds.
Moving into the studio courtyard.
Archive
February 12, 2025
In
Ode to Oak 2024
I brought fallen branches into the studio that had lichen or other interesting patterns or growth on them (see Garden Constellate, Installations). I removed the leaf portions leaving them sorted in piles according to colours. During the last week I strung them together, making a 2.5 m column that I suspended from a leftover length of fishing line. After scouting the fields of the estate, a few days before leaving I brought it outside, hanging it from a large oak tree near the living pods. It gently touched the ground so as not to be completely blown away resulting in a gentle dance between solid tree and land.
August 3, 2024
In
Momentary Interventions 2022-2024
Taking time to engage with the land, to embrace the patterns, textures, colours; to create a juncture of connection and delight.
Moving with time and motion as the sun shifts, the waves play with my dodging skips, and I soak up lake fresh air with all my might.
I live for these moments, and leave them behind for those who share my delight.
August 18, 2022
In
Mum Nests 2021
Time passed in nature
Lake clay
Chrysanthemum flowers
Tree branch limbs
Surprises for passers by
Passing time
December 6, 2019
In
Grass Globes 2018-19
Seed idea, September, Lockridge Common
One afternoon in September, when the grass was freshly cut, and after I had played with the grass at Lockridge Common, I made thirty-three globe shapes, placing each one on a patio stone. I documented them over a six month period, watching them breakdown, becoming muddy and sloppy. Covered in snow. Soaked in rain. In the spring I gathered what was left to gleefully discover that they had made a permanent ‘clean’ mark on the stones.
Grass Globes | September 2018 – March 2019
Marlborough College Artist in Residence garden
September 16, 2018
In
Globes 2017 – 2019
Eelgrass Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum British Columbia, Canada
Kelp Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum British Columbia, Canada
Sea Lettuce Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum British Columbia, Canada
Mud Globe
Earthskin Muriwai Beach, New Zealand
Black Sand Globe
Earthskin Muriwai Beach, New Zealand
Experimental Forest Globe
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Oregon, USA
Reflections Globe
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Oregon, USA
Welcome Globe
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology Oregon, USA
Parachute Globe
Cultureland Amsterdam/Starnmeer Netherlands
Bay leaf Globe
Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK
Bark Globe
Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK
Oak Leaf Globe
Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK
Seed Pod Globe
Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK
May 14, 2018
In
Momentary Interventions 2017
The Forest Births an Island Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Oregon, USA January 2018
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Birthing Infinity Experimental Forest, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology
Oregon, USA January 2018
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Monkey Tree Vessel Nikau Palm Forest
Muriwai, New Zealand September 2017
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Horopito Line Forest walk
Muriwai, NewZealand | September 2017
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Impatience Patience
Lake Huron, Ontario August 2017
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Brugmansia Pi
Lake Huron August 2017
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Burn Line North shore beach
Haida Gwaii July 2017
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Stones & Circles & Andy G
Cornwall, UK May 2016
Momentary interventions are my way of making tangible an ongoing love affair with the natural world.
To create with nature is to enter into a particular realm; to make offerings through the poetry of place.
These moments are precious, often resulting in bright new ideas for fleshing out work in the studio.
September 16, 2017
In
Tidal Marking 2017
Haida Gwaii Museum
Artist in Residence, July 2017
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Marking the tide
Using the sea to observe the passing of time
Seaweed set in the crevices made by the incoming/outgoing tide
Tides as marking time and seeing the pattern as familiar to land
Trees, branches, river paths