Wild Margins

Unraveling the wild hedgerow’s that shelter and enclose our coastal pathways.

What at first appears to be a snarled tangle of stems, stalks, leaves and flowers is on closer inspection something that more resembles a symphony. There is a harmony that runs throughout, where each plant has its place and the whole thing works together in a coalition of wildness.

I am always inspired by summer time and the diversity and growth that is contained in these wild edges. Last year I spent many hours observing and drawing, picking apart the dense layers of visual imagery, deciding what to keep and what to let go of whilst being conscious of maintaining a sense that these were very much coastal hedgerows that we look over and through into infinite space towards the horizon.

It became a balancing act between details, space and movement that is very much still in progress and I have picked up again this summer in Part Two, this time combining other techniques such as paper lithography printmaking.