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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 joy.

Sing with me as I sort and swim, sing to all this goodness, and sing for life itself.

August 18, 2022 In

Mum Nests 2021

Ideas as they percolate
Time passed in nature
Lake clay
Chrysanthemum flowers
Tree branch limbs
Passing time

December 6, 2019 In

Grass Globes 2018-2019

Grass Globes | September 2018 – March 2019
Marlborough College Artist in Residence garden

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. In the spring I gathered what was left to gleefully discover that they had made a permanent ‘clean’ mark on the stones.

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, 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

Tulip Petal Globe
Marlborough College Wiltshire, UK

May 14, 2018 In

Momentary Interventions 2017

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 for an undetermined period of non-time. These moments are precious, often resulting in bright new ideas for fleshing out work in the studio.

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
Haida Gwaii | July 2017
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stone circle

I Love Stone & Circles & Andy G
Cornwall, UK | May 2016

September 16, 2017 In

Tidal Marking 2017

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

Haida Gwaii Museum
Artist in Residence, July 2017

August 16, 2017 In

Grass Works 2014

Grass works
Ten week span, summer on Mayne Island, Canada 2014

grass works earth works, later earth works, much later earth works, later later the finale

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it is estimated that 83 species of mammals, 113 species of birds, 23 species of amphibians and reptiles, 23 species of fish, about 100 species of invertebrates, and over 350 species of plants have become extinct. The rate of extinction is somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times greater than the natural rate previous to this time period, which was 2 to 10 species per year.

Over the summer, I watched these grass balls fade away, the paper being torn at and salvaged by birds for their nests and I wondered how little of nature we are aware of and if we saw more obvious and direct signs of degradation, would we change our minds, our actions, our lifestyles?