Collaborating with Himley Hall and Park on a site specific project, looking at the way nature reclaims and regenerates, especially around the fringes and edges often unseen or overlooked. Himley Hall was built on the wealth generated through mans exploitation of the natural environment, mining, quarries, and the Industrial Revolution. Sat in the Black Country UNESCO Geo Park the work is grounded in landscape, it also holds voices from the shadows—the traces of labour, migration, and lived experience embedded within these environments. These histories are not directly illustrated, but remain present within the layered surfaces and shifting forms.
“Nature is visceral, wild, unfiltered, I want my work to embody that. To create something raw, that is felt, something real. I feel a deep and instinctive pull toward the natural world – especially quiet, often overlooked places: paths, riverbanks, the edges of land”.
Work in progress a quick glimpse into the experimental process of creating new work. Here I am using found pigments from earth and plants along the margins, to create paint with layers and then rubbing back the surface to add more layers. Pooling and pouring, rubbing and eroding replicating nature and mans interventions, at these local reclaimed sites and nature reserves.
