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Landscape regularly snags my attention, especially the tamer, more domesticated variety.
A lot of the attraction is to do with layers. When humans live somewhere, they adapt the world around them again and again until the land becomes a palimpsest, a document written over itself many times. Sometimes the past leaves evident or hidden traces, sometimes not. I know that under this school sports field there sits a mosaic, the stone outline of a roman bathhouse; that beneath that new development was once a tapestry of thin, battered concrete, with swathes of coltsfoot, bee orchids; but under a hilltop copse or a quiet, ploughed field, who knows? The unknown, unknowable stories are tantalising. The layers, long gone or still there to see or no more than the accretion of time, pair place with memory - ours and the land's - and build something rich and complex, maps of now and then. I explore ideas mostly through printmaking and book arts, and sell through exhibitions, fairs and open studio events, but please get in touch if something catches your eye and you'd like to know more. One day I'll build a shop, start a newsletter, but today is not that day. 
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Events for 2021
Atkinson Gallery open exhibition 22nd February-26th March - this exhibition will be shown online.
The Old Lock Up Gallery ISO open exhibition 7th-21st March - this exhibition will be shown online.
The Old Lock Up Gallery ISO open exhibition 7th-21st March - this exhibition will be shown online.
