Art, space, journeys and the natural environment
Standing purposefully
Forgotten railway.
Copper rusted veins
Grey green lichen,
bearded uprights.
Channelled into another world,
peepholes to the riverbank.
Filling the sky
a willow wind.
Unmapped details
Xanthoria parietina.
Uncomfortable with the idea and restriction of my thoughts confined to box, they were released to the sky to be free. I was then able to progress on the urban quest to discover.
Weephole
Jungle changing scale
Chromatic lichen
Peeling layers
Broken stones
Immersion revealed
Stormy weather confined us to basement camp.
Thoughts and process recorded in box. Whilst useful and pinpointed, it allowed me to refine ideas. Focusing on daylight breathing space I found solitude and inspiration in a web and moss green crumbling bricks.
However the process went against my natural urge to be free, floating from a to b to z and back to d. Confinement is an enemy to the therapy of the mind.
A week of developing ideas, making and reflection around the themes of revealing overlooked pockets of urban wild. Continue reading “Finding a site of Specific Artistic Interest (SSAI)”
Waste not, want not: a 3 day contemporary mosaic making course with Joanna Kessel, at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh. Posted by Jacquie Continue reading “Edinburgh: thinking with materials, a tactile journey”
Landguard Point, Felixstowe, Saturday 15th September, 3pm, High tide 16.04 Continue reading “And on to Landguard Point: Longshore drift”
This project has been kindly funded by the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB and Suffolk Secrets
Saturday 15th September, 20 degrees, blustery and sunny, High tide 16.14, 3.75m Continue reading “Old Felixstowe: A Living Wall”
August 29th, Old Felixstowe, Conditions: overcast with heavy rain clearing later, tide 3.70m at 14.06 Continue reading “Felixstowe field trip”
