Featured Artwork

Title: of mossy apple tree 3/5
Medium: Graphite rubbing of apple tree bark and Dartmoor moss
Size: 30 x 42 cm
Date: 2016

Inspired by a line in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Frost at Midnight this series of five two-dimensional works celebrate the complexity of our English countryside.

Playing with Coleridge's words, at first glance what you see is what you get - moss covered apple bark. Winking back to the Coleridge's text based work the common names of five different species of sphagnum moss are painted in sharp letters using pigment made from Dartmoor moss. The bold lettering has been  applied over a multi-tonal layer of graphite rubbed apple tree bark, creating an almost three-dimensional affect.

Creating a deeper level to the work the artist has chosen these sphagnum mosses for their importance within the carbon cycle. Found together with peatland these mosses draw carbon dioxide in from our atmosphere and lock it away in the peaty sub-layer in a process called carbon capture.

2016

Sphagnum moss remembers. Cork tiles & Cwm Clettwr moss. 120x120cm

of mossy apple tree. Graphite rubbing of apple tree bark & Dartmoor moss. 1-5 & detail. 30x42cm

Allotment. Centre for Alternative Technology seeds & Llwyngwern slate pigment on plywood. 120cm diameter.
Switching Heads (Llwyngwern slate). Llwyngwern slate shards and moss. 60x50x50cm.
My Earth. Centre for Alternative Technology earth pigments & text on watercolour card. 32 pigment postcards, 32 text postcards.
My Earth, text on watercolour card. 32 cards

2015

Talking points. Coordinates embossed on paper x 15 2015.  Switching Heads. Screen print on paper x4.
7 billion of you and me. Pre-owned cups and saucers and collected British earth pigments. Installation.

Switching Heads-sound mapping the Arctic. Film stills. In collaboration with Kristina Pulejkova.

Glen Johnson's Ladder. Screen print on paper. 60x21cm.
Wadebridge, Near Wheat, West Facing. Screen print on paper 21x30cm
Talking points. Embossed paper. 30x21cm x15

2014

Woodberry Down: under heating in winter. London red bricks, graphite, coloured yarn. 200x210cm. 2013-2014

2013

1om hedgerow transect (B,NW,WF). Screen print on ecological Fabriano paper. 150x1000cm.

2012

Beeswax mandala series
Hollow. Buckfast beeswax. 150cm diameter.
Foundation. Buckfast beeswax foundation, chard plywood. 120cm diameter. (Full and detail)
Pollen. Pollen, chard plywood. (detail)
Globe. Buckfast beeswax. 50cm diameter.

2011

Absence series
(top row left 2 images) Deceased honey bees, casting plaster. collection of 150 plaster discs. (right) Deceased honey bees, casting plaster. collection of 20.
(bottom row left-right) eco Fabriano paper, pencil, Buckfast beeswax 1000x150cm. Buckfast beeswax,, glass honey jar x1. Deceased honey bees, casting plaster.on board 40x70cm

2010

Melting Tea Set. Buckfast Abbey beeswax & sheet steel.

Seven day waggle dance. Reconstructed Buckfast beehive, Buckfast beeswax, plywood. Installation.

Recycled Art series

Wet paint handshakes (re-enactment of Roi Vaara's performance) 3 hour performance. 2013
Beeswax Chair. (remaking of Joseph Beuys' Fat Chair Fettstuhl) reclaimed wooden chair, beeswax. 2013

Moving image

Climate Sit In: thermal conversations. Film still. 2014

Process. (Switching Heads sound mapping the Arctic). Film still. 2015