An unexpected recent outcome from regular wading along the river has been a new series of sculptural extractions. The work relates less to plants along the river than to the experience of the river: its colour, its muddiness, its smell, […]
Talking of burdock plants (see my last post), a book I have recently discovered and loved reading is Weeds by Richard Mabey. Described on the dust jacket as ‘the first ever cultural history of weeds’, it has a whole chapter […]
I dug these plants up in September 2024. Each plant was tall with an imposing structure in the died-back, post-summer, nature reserve. I planned to draw them on 1.8 metre strong, light, Japanese Kozo paper, to be hung in the […]