Reflecting Upon the Liminal

The liminal is a common thread running throughout my art practice. Immersion through creativity into nature is my liminal place connecting me with my true essence. My country childhood, growing up on a farm in a rural location has shaped me. My creativity acts like a portal enabling me to return over and over again to that place which nourishes and restores. It is a place where I can reconnect with my own timeless essence and harness the potential for renewed growth and possibilities. It is that which stimulates my desire to make and create, what drives my work forwards and makes me an artist.

Ideas currently developing

Continuing my work with sheep skulls and all that they come to symbolise in terms of life and death and the past in the present. Exploring through process ideas about transcience and the sense of distant presence, of being here and not being here of passing through and leaving marks and traces.

In Between - working with shadow imagery and using layering processes to explore ideas about boundaries between the past and the present etc

Below are examples taken from recent series' of works which explore different aspects of the liminal

Immersion Paintings - Drop down menu Immersion Paintings

Immersion into hedgerows a nurturing and transformative space. Memories of childhood...

Hedge Portals - Drop down menu Cornwall / Hedge Portals

Standing on the boundary or threshold of a new and different world. A response to peering into hedgerows or the hollows of trees, a magical sense of the unknown of experiencing the unexpected.