This Creative Scotland award is for a period of research, training and experimentation with natural pigments, something I’ve been wanting to explore for a long time.

Natural Acrylic on cradled board, twig sewn with organic cotton
300mm x 300mm (dimensions variable)

“Deep down we knew what the solutions were, we just needed the courage to live differently.”

Natural Acrylic on cradled board, twig sewn with organic cotton.
300mm x 300mm (dimensions variable)

“We discovered new systems that created balance, change brought joy.”

Acrylic on cradled board, twig sewn with organic cotton.300mm x 300mm (dimensions variable)

“One day we chose to listen, to see the shadows and the light,
and to make choices that supported future generations.”

Excited to share I have been awarded Arts Council England funding to begin a new research & development project. Exploring how place-based creative practice can link people, materials and landscapes across the UK.

Acrylic Ink, salt & marker pen on gesso-primed cradled wood, 841 × 594 mm

“Care became a shared practice.
Through uncertainty and change, people chose connection over extraction and something resilient was able to take hold.”

Acrylic on gesso-primed cradled wood
254 × 254 mm

“As people learned to live with enough, a deeper sense of belonging emerged.
Connection replaced scarcity and lives became less defined by excess.”

Acrylic on gesso-primed cradled wood, 594 x 420mm.

“People stopped seeing themselves as separate to or above nature.
They learnt to work with nature.
A strong rewilding movement followed.”

Acrylic Ink, salt and marker pen on gesso-primed cradled wood, 841 × 594 mm.

“Communities took ownership of land to grow food and improve biodiversity.
Access to common land increased significantly.”