“Landscape on the soles of my feet: contours on the tips of my fingers”

 

I am a natural scientist with a keen sense of place.  I have walked many miles at home and abroad, capturing on camera things I see.  The landscape shapes and colours I record are not just seasonal, but of the moment, subject to the time of the day and the weather.  My work usually focuses on a particular identity, an accurate depiction, from which I create more abstract images

 

I spend hours studying maps to plan where I might walk and I repeat shapes from these.

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I take eternal inspiration from my ramblings, leading me to research all manner of details from trees and flowers to lichens and rocks. All these become starting points for what you see in my paper and textile expressions.

 

“I cannot look at a leaf on a tree without being bowled over by the universe”  Victor Hugo