Lockdown Journey 2020
An imaginary journey taken from my desktop during the Covid-19 lockdown.
The light through the window on the small stones, pieces of glass and ceramics mudlarked from the Thames became a vehicle to travel through magical landscapes among standing stones and mountains.
Islands 2020
During the first Covid-19 lockdown, I slipped through a portal that was created by the light on my windowsill, which had fallen on a stone brought from a French hilltop and a book: The Beauty of Everyday Things. From its position on the book, the stone cast a shadow that changed form as I moved it in the bright Spring light. I travelled to the subconscious region between memory and imagination, and found an island created by the shadows, that both ebbed and flowed, approached and receded; oscillating between a Fabled Isle and a Blue Hole. When the images of the islands were formed I slipped cyanotype paper into the light to capture the shadows and create the works in this series.