Night Watch

This year has been mostly about drawing, continuing to work on the woodland project. During the period of five years living off-grid, living with landscape in a Welsh woodland, I created many mini-series of work about the experience, areas of my work that I have yet to develop. The first five years culminated in an exhibition 'The Intimacy Of Liminal Spaces' shown at Belgrave St. Ives, Cornwall in 2016. Now living away from the woodland, but only five miles, I am returning to sketchbooks, piles of drawings and to the woodland. These images are beginnings - work in progress. They involve developing the use of oak gall ink in drawings - I make this from gathered oak galls found in the woodland and also a series of 'moon drawings', digital photographs taken while night-walking, using a long exposure and the moon as a light source with which to draw. I want to see how the two different mediums hang next to each other and intend to print the photographs in silver gelatin, a process with a beautiful matt quality and sense of depth which will juxtapose the photography well with the drawings. For now, it is called 'Night Watch'. In September 2017 I will continue work on this during a one month residency at the Elysium Gallery test-bed space in Swansea. http://www.elysiumgallery.com/thisthis-project-space/