A lot of new work has been developed in the studio (having quit the day job), I will photograph and share it here soon. Please bear with me, or ask for an email or studio visit.)

It is mythological drawings, oil paintings, and sculpture from found wood.

It is about the more than human.

It is from dreams, visions, and evocations from nature.

Being charged with imagery and clues, provocations, from sensory walks, usually in the woods, I then let this influence the marks, materials and surfaces I work with in the studio. I like working with the materials of place as active collaboration, a co-producing of the work with water, chalk, charcoal, bone black pigment made from bones found on walks, gum-arabic, honey, plus other raw pigments. The materials and processes are elemental, fire, earth, air, and water. In loosening the grip of how the materials, tools, and ideas are integrated and applied to make the work, there is a looseness and a truth that emerges. My work is to put that out into the world as I believe there is someone who on seeing it will recognise, release, remember something, that opens a question or calls to the intangible. So the work becomes the next stage of provocation for them, much as the forest did for me.

There is ritual in the research and the making: ritual ways of walking, listening, being; ritual ways of processing materials and experiences through making.

So what is left are the remnants and elements of something new. The paintings and sculpture are suggestive, they invite long looking as you discover another thing or way of interpreting it.