In Landscape

Working with discarded materials, I am interested in how histories of use, damage and repair continue to inhabit both objects and landscapes.  Some paintings seem to arrive already carrying the memory of a place.  Rather than beginning with a specific location or subject, they gradually find where they belong.  Photographing the work becomes another stage of its making, placing it in landscapes where visual and material echoes begin to emerge.  I am drawn to places shaped by extraction, recovery and ecological succession, not as subjects to be depicted, but as sites where the paintings seem to enter into dialogue with the land.  By documenting these encounters, I hope to leave associations open, allowing the work to suggest connections rather than define them.

Recent work from August 2026 have been addressing the infernal heat this summer, drought and a field fire on the farm where I live and work.  Documentation here on Instagram. 

Fire Guards,  site specific sculpture and performance, repurposed corrugate roofing, Hammerite paint , silver birches and me,    August 2026

After fire, waste paint -= emulsion, road marking spray,, grass and ash on paper, 162 x 125cm, August 2026 (performance still)  recto 

After fire, waste paint -= emulsion, road marking spray,, grass and ash on paper, 162 x 125cm, August 2026, recto of painting below 

Before Fire,  sheep hay ring feeder, waste paint -= emulsion, road marking spray,, grass and ash on sewn paper panels, 162 x 125cm, August 2026 (verso of painting above) 

Hard Summer (Comberow  Incline) ,  emulsion, gloss, chalk pastel, brown tape and charcoal on joined paper panels,  160 x 125cm July 2026

Field Repair, Emulsion, grass, tape, parcel paper, oil pastel and household gloss on joined panels of wall lining paper, 158 x 123cm, July 2025

To Comberow Incline, emulsion, tape, oil pastel, solvent, sandpaper, roadmarker and textile on sewn panels of brown paper, 165 x 127cm,  July 2026