Flower Heads made in lockdown
My work is deeply set in the mysteries of nature, landscape,
mythology and symbolism, ‘Lockdown’, despite its bleakness, has given me the
space to pause and absorb, and regain something lost.
For me, this time has been spent walking my landscape, finding new
paths, noticing and observing where I am and where I would like to be, past,
present, future. The circle of land around me that I can easily explore has
expanded and I’ve made discoveries about the place I am lucky enough to live
in. It has allowed me, as David Farrier put it in his book Animal Trails to
“find a new way to join what we know with what we have yet to discover” and the
discoveries in my small Cumbrian village are bountiful. Wild garlic and
celandines in Icehouse wood, the ancient coppice of trees on Heversham Head
plantation or the fallen apple blossom on the grass in the orchard. The more
I’ve learnt, the more I feel connected to where I live. The images I’m drawn to
create show the two combined, and they show the energy and power that the land
is giving to me.
My shadow sinks deep into
the earth, absorbing its essence, like ‘Blodeuwedd’ the mythological women made
of flowers from the ancient Welsh Mabinogion poems, she rises from the flowers
of the forest floor and becomes alive.
I live and work in the beautiful village of Leasgil and predominantly work in porcelain and print.
I am still making Flower Heads, they are in most of my galleries and i can make commissions, just contact me directly.