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Becoming Place 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugo Burge Foundation     Marchmont Estate    Duns, Scotland
Watercolour, graphite, macro photography, paper, thread, collected ephemera

It All Comes Alive 2024

Spirit Comes Alive, series of 24 drawings
Watercolour, graphite, coloured pencils on tracing paper vellum
20.32 cm square  I  8 in square

In situ, Hugo Burge Foundation    Marchmont Estate, Scotland

 

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For Hilma 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphite, watercolour, egg tempera on sewn vintage book pages
24 x 18.4 cm  I  9.5 x 7.25 in

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Inspired by the shapes and colours of Hilma af Klimt’s work, I made these little paintings to work in tandem with a series of drawings titled Becoming a Forest (page 18). They are drawn onto the sewn pages from a hundred-year-old book that was coming apart at the spine. Although it felt odd to make marks and colour over the existing story, there was a subtle joy in the melding of words to visual imagery and the value of extending the life of a book that seemed destined to be discarded.

We Are the Seeds 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watercolour, ink, graphite & coloured pencils on 30% recycled & Fabriano paper

43.2 x 35.6 cm  I 17 x 14 in
149.9 x 229.6 cm  I  59 x 90 in

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THEY TRIED TO BURY US BUT THEY DIDNT REALIZE WE ARE THE SEEDS 

This series of watercolour paintings explore beyond the surface, the seen, the known of the natural world.
They are roots, branches, wings, mycelium, seaweeds; they are energy and vibration.
They are my versions of how living elements communicate with each other: measurable, recorded energetic language.

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. ~Rumi

Qualia Forest 2020-22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series of 20 drawings
Graphite, watercolour on hotpressed paper
63 x 48 cm  I  24.8 x 18.9 cm

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When thoughts, ideas, challenges, visions, imaginings and dreams all come together in conscious experience that is yours along yet strangely part of a whole.

Entanglement, entrainment, consciousness, awareness.

 

Gathering the Gap Botanicals 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

20 pieces
Boiled botanical prints with graphite & watercolour
19 x 19 cm  I  7.5 x 7.5 in

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This experiment with boiled botanicals on cotton paper led to the series of drawings similarly titled Gathering the Gap (see next portfolio page)