With strong inspiration from nature, as with all my work, the pieces below situate themselves deep within a forest, a place of refuge and healing comfort for me. This series of work tells a story of darkness becomming light. It speaks of finding a pathway through a difficulty, challanges of home relationships and navigating mental wellbeing.
Flames flicker, dancing and becoming shapes of animals or flora. They begin this tale, reminiscent of ancient folklore story telling from ages gone by.
Are these flames comforting, or threatening?
To me they are a thing of inspiration and beauty. An element that contradicts itself. It comforts, yet can harm.
Are they flames of a survival campfire in a forest, flames of celebration and gathering in ancient times, or flames of a cosy home hearth, the heart of the home, as it was once known by all.
A forest and home of flames, destruction and comfort, rabbits and wolves, prey and predator and colourful enigmatic fungi, food or poison
Flames flicker, dancing and becoming shapes of animals or flora. They begin this tale, reminiscent of ancient folklore story telling from ages gone by.
Are these flames comforting, or threatening?
To me they are a thing of inspiration and beauty. An element that contradicts itself. It comforts, yet can harm.
Are they flames of a survival campfire in a forest, flames of celebration and gathering in ancient times, or flames of a cosy home hearth, the heart of the home, as it was once known by all.
A forest and home of flames, destruction and comfort, rabbits and wolves, prey and predator and colourful enigmatic fungi, food or poison
Rabbit , 2021, framed 17.5 x 22.5 cm, ink on paper
I'm sorry would be an insult
I'm only a rabbit, and you, a ....
Still you remain in the pursuit
That I be your family, and you my .....
Why do you still show no .....
You and I are not the ....
I'm only a ......, and you, a wolf.
Although that is not what you understood
How many times must I decree
That you and I are not ......
The undergrowth carpet for some hides all
But I, no longer wish to feel so ...
I long to get lost in the woods
Stray from the path
Become one with the .......
Protected by the canopy
Comforted by the undergrowth
Where else would I rather be than the
Dark and ...... woods
I long to get lost in the woods
Wandering from my roots
Following animal tracks
I wonder if they are what I ....
Happening upon a tree
I wonder how much it has ....
Perhaps it knows much more than me,
or any of ........
How do you communicate
Do the fungi that grow beneath ...........
I'm sorry would be an insult
I'm only a rabbit, and you, a ....
Still you remain in the pursuit
That I be your family, and you my .....
Why do you still show no .....
You and I are not the ....
I'm only a ......, and you, a wolf.
Although that is not what you understood
How many times must I decree
That you and I are not ......
The undergrowth carpet for some hides all
But I, no longer wish to feel so ...
I long to get lost in the woods
Stray from the path
Become one with the .......
Protected by the canopy
Comforted by the undergrowth
Where else would I rather be than the
Dark and ...... woods
I long to get lost in the woods
Wandering from my roots
Following animal tracks
I wonder if they are what I ....
Happening upon a tree
I wonder how much it has ....
Perhaps it knows much more than me,
or any of ........
How do you communicate
Do the fungi that grow beneath ...........
Hazard , 2021, 20 x 30 cm, oil on wood
Cadmium , 2021, 42 x 56 cm, oil on canvas
Growth , 2021, 56 x 42 cm, oil on canvas
Proxy , 2021, 56 x 42 cm, oil on canvas
Bite , 2021, 18 x 24 cm ,oil on wood
Portal , 2021, 18 x 24 cm, oil on wood