March 1, 2025
In
Becoming Place 2024
Hugo Burge Foundation Marchmont Estate Duns, Scotland
Watercolour, graphite, macro photography, paper, thread, collected ephemera
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January 26, 2025
In
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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August 6, 2024
In
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.
July 26, 2024
In
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
July 14, 2024
In
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.
October 9, 2019
In
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)