The importance of connection to place is real and abiding.

The view is not separate from the viewer, place is not separate from those who inhabit it. Engagement with place must be maintained, even if through memory alone. Landscapes we carry with us even in absence, those we are physically remote from become so amplified, so deeply a part of us.

It is this understanding of place I aim to capture and communicate – here on the South Coast of England and in memories of landscape in New Zealand, my childhood home.

Explorations have been made through photography, location and studio-based sketching, contextual research and physical investigations, to develop ideas towards 3D resolutions in wood. My material holds a primitive familiarity. A warmth. It’s reassuring to me that it already has its own life and narrative, we have an immediate dialogue. I believe we are collaborators.