Deep Among The Grasses

“These works explore my relationship to the landscape of my childhood, and draws upon memories and imagination. My largest piece Green Air takes its title directly from a passage in The Waves, by Virginia Woolf where the fictional children play outside, absorbed in the garden - up to their necks in soil, stems and leaves. They imagine sinking through the green air of the leaves, just touching the ground with the tips of their toes. Like these fictional characters my memories of being immersed in wild spaces, rather than viewing from a safe distance, are at the core of what I’m exploring”