Exploring found materials
Foraged forms and combustibles
Using found clays, tempered with sand, to take indexes of found forms
An example of a clay index and it's former
Intervention using found clay and rock formations
An example of a clay index
Pencil sketch exploring foraged seaweed
Foraged clay index with foraged seaweed
Collecting foraged clay indexes
Drying foraged seaweed
Preparing a foil sagger containing clay index and seaweed
Preparing a foil sagger containing clay index and seaweed
Wood firing saggers inside my cob oven
Assessing artefacts post wood firing
A blend foraging, hand building, mindfulness and experimental archaeology, my process is born from a desire to tread lightly.
Primal and prehistoric, my technique is a vehicle for a direct and raw connection to found materials, place, and the elements that make us.
The process creates the form.
Materials are given centre stage, and they have much to say. Through weight, colour, texture, surface, shadow and line, the artefacts speak of home.
As an artist, I dip my hand into the flow of matter - from star to mountain to sea to rock - and I pull out sculptural snapshots, loaded with billion year old narratives of the epic geological journey taken by our world.