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For as long as I can remember I have looked for ways to constellate my emotional attachment to the earth and landscape.
All my work is concerned with the journey of the soul and its relationship with the earth. Ideas about memory, space and time, love, redemption and healing occur frequently in my paintings and I try to make each one a prayer of sorts – an attempt to heal myself or those I love, to redeem physical reality. The hills and valleys, the creatures, the birds, the soil and the elements – I turn these in my heart and commit them to canvas in forms inseparable from body and spirit.
I always work in mixed media, using natural and organic methods: materials such as sawdust, ash, and soil are applied as a foundation, followed my succeeding layers of oils and natural pigments mixed with leaves, paper and other materials. I prefer to apply paint with my hands, burning and distressing the surface with a heat source or scraping and dissolving the paint in search of form, history and symmetry.
I often find that a poem comes into being as part of the painting process, and this is applied near to the end of a work and seals it as a prayer and a blessing.
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| We are hillbirds now | | You were bleeding bygone legends |
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