I give you the end of a golden string;Only wind it into a ball:It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,Built in Jerusalem’s wall. ‘Jerusalem’ – William Blake The work and thoughts here are part of my MA in Artist Teacher Practice at Oxford Brookes. I am currently pursuing...
Notes and Prints – Interconnectedness
Continuing from the thoughts shared in the previous post: By walking ritually, my walk becomes a symbolic stitching of the spiritual and material. Each action echoes the Hermetic truth: what is above is reflected below. And the extension of that ‘as within, so without.’ It is about the interconnectedness....
What is above is like that which is below
Another walk. 3.5 miles taking in the Monarch’s Way, East Dean, Charlton, Singleton and Glorious Goodwood. Despite being a warm Sunday, we didn’t see any other people. However, we saw a lot of wildlife – many butterflies, deer, grouse and buzzards. I noted that we often begin walks by...
Cuckmere Haven Earth Pigments
The intuitive process of creating these earth pigments has become ritualistic now. I can drift away whilst mixing the fine pigment with the gum arabic. I can ‘feel’ the amounts rather than measure. I have started to notice how I can experiment and play with the different soils and...
Earth Pigment Prints
These are my favourite aspect of my body of work – they feel the most like I have found my practice and I think demonstrate the best how far I have come and the risks that I have taken....
Poems & Photographs
My poetry and accompanying photographs are printed on velum. The translucent nature of the velum represents the layers of my journey, the dialogue between my inner and outer landscapes and my interest in the palimpsest. You can read more about each of these themes in older posts....
Hagstone
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Ferring Under a Pink Moon
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Chanctonbury Hill on the Last Day of May
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We Begin
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Shipley on the Spring Equinox
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