Art From London Markets, a-n feature

Last weekend I went to the New Forest, and took some photographs as the basis for creating abstract spaces in a brown / green spectrum resonant of my childhood memories. My work seems to be taking an auto biographical turn………….

I feel so lucky that this is where I grew up

and for the dramatic sky on the day of our walk

this place holds memories of the extremely happy and extremely sad

and above all an enormous sense of your own smallness in the landscape

I will be using these photos and others I took that day for inspiration with colour and to refine down the elements

which create that sense of space

and allow me to hold onto the emotional ambiguity

both soothing and

threatening

that they can embody

these wild spaces contrasted with the

more manicured private spaces of people’s gardens

which in this part of the world inevitably contain traces of the wild

coupled with planned order and

restricted boundaries

private ownership and
order