During a time of ecological crisis, the Anthropocene Era, a deeper consideration of our co-existence on Earth is needed. As I forage materials from the landscape, paintings are both saturated and dictated by natural rhythms of sunlight, tides, seasons, and the weather. Objects become microcosms of the wider world as transient pigments permeate surfaces and trail across the colour spectrum. Bound in our temporality they invite the viewer to adjust their own sense of time, as an equally transformative material-body. Slowing down to experience the work as it stands at the present-moment in its ephemeral lifespan.

Concerned with natural, social, and spiritual ecologies, I blend the realms of art and science from processes of colour extraction to our classification of the land. Bottles of earth matter sit next to a cartological gradient, spanning three years of working in Brighton’s landscape, as a record of physical and spiritual transition. The Oikos Series, meaning our home, also encourages conversations between our material world and metaphysical experience of it; where fabric saturated in the vitality of the natural-pigment sprawl out of the two-dimensional plane becoming alter-like in their composition.

As the boundaries between the gallery space, my studio, and the outer-world blur, lines meander these territories- as cartological grids, latitude and longitude, ley lines, light spectrums, fungal networks, branches, footpaths, mantras, breathes and sun trails. They are records of journeys deeply rooted in our human experience of the natural world, while transcending these scales into the essences of life. Meshworks, as anthropologist Tim Ingold calls them, where ‘every living being is a line or, better, a bundle of lines’, to re-weave the webs of our interconnection.