Taking a break from Art Fair Prep. Inspiration in childhood places.

Last weekend I went to the New Forest, and took some photographs as the basis for creating abstract spaces in a brown / green spectrum resonant of my childhood memories.  My work seems to be taking an auto biographical turn.............

 I feel so lucky that this is where I grew up

 and for the dramatic sky on the day of our walk

 this place holds memories of the extremely happy and extremely sad

 and above all an enormous sense of your own smallness in the landscape

 I will be using these photos and others I took that day for inspiration with colour and to refine down the elements

 which create that sense of space

 and allow me to hold onto the emotional ambiguity

 both soothing and                                  

                                                               threatening

that they can embody

 these wild spaces contrasted with the

more manicured private spaces of people's gardens

which in this part of the world inevitably contain traces of the wild

coupled with planned

order and

restricted boundaries

private ownership and

 order

I can feel a new project coming on.