trails and contours (2019)
An ongoing series of works investigating and reflecting on the pathways and journeys made as we travel across sites of natural beauty. From fields raked through by a plough, layers of soil dragged up in rigid rows, to abstracted memories of walks taken in unfamiliar landscapes, curving and extending through my unreliable memory; these images all share a sense of contour and psychological mapping of an environment. Routes in the Chilterns which have been pathways of hundreds of years, such as the Ridgeway and the Icknield Way, have an undeniable power over the imagination, blending into a historical haze of footsteps and chalk, flint and soil.
This set of works are in a variety of media - linocut, etching and collagraph, as well as collages made from torn monotypes and cut paper, with drawn elements.
