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SOIL SOUL 2024

 

Entranced with the unique colour and texture
of the soil of the Marchmont Estate grounds.

 

 

 

 

 

Moving into the studio courtyard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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.

 

Mum Nests 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time passed in nature
Lake clay
Chrysanthemum flowers
Tree branch limbs
Surprises for passers by
Passing time

 

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

 

Globes 2017 – 2019

 Eelgrass Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum    British Columbia, Canada

 

Kelp Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum   British Columbia, Canada

sea lettuce globe
Sea Lettuce Globe
Haida Gwaii Museum   British Columbia, Canada

 

Mud Globe, NZ
Mud Globe
Earthskin    Muriwai Beach, New Zealand

 

Black Sand Globe, NZ

Black Sand Globe
Earthskin    Muriwai Beach, New Zealand

 

experimental forest globe
Experimental Forest Globe
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology    Oregon, USA

 

reflections globe
Reflections Globe
Sitka Center for Art & Ecology    Oregon, USA

 

welcome globe
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

Momentary Interventions 2017

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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

 

Monkey Tree Vessel     Nikau Palm Forest
Muriwai, New Zealand   September 2017

Horopito Line    Forest walk
Muriwai, NewZealand  | September 2017

 

 

Impatience Patience
Lake Huron, Ontario    August 2017

Brugmansia Pi
Lake Huron    August 2017

Burn Line   North shore beach
Haida Gwaii    July 2017

stone circle

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.

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