Some things I can say about me
I am an artist and maker from the UK.
Or……..I try to be what an artist might be and create things just in case I am one.
I grew up in a village near the Somerset Levels and have recently returned to the area, curious to see how I might respond emotionally and creatively. The return seems inevitable, it is a fitting place to continue to make work that has always been driven in some way by personal experience with nature and our glorious but troubled relationship within it.
For years I illustrated and designed things. Then I painted murals, trompe l'œil decoration and fancy ceilings in big houses and boats and palaces. But after a while I wanted to see what would happen if I made up my own questions and looked only to my self for creative beginnings and endings.
I am still learning how to make things from nothing as if they might be Something.
My fear is that I will not be able to do justice to the impulse and desire that draws me forward into the making. It is this emotional tussle that perhaps brings the intimacy, tension and the quiet deliberation into the work I produce.
I don't find the word 'finishing' describes the endings I come to.
One of my favourite words to describe my process is ‘tinkering’.
Some of my favourite materials to tinker with are beeswax, paper, cardboard, string and organic matter.
If I can make something that would harmlessly biodegrade I am happier.
Right now I am circling around an idea, its provisional title is 'Feel'd'. The intention is to make work that is centred around a particular field here in Somerset. I want to know it well enough to sense where and how we might meet. This intention feels a challenging departure, specific as it is to place, but is truly, a continuation of everything that has gone before.
In the Feel’d shelter with my growing collection of baler twine.