Works

A selection of work from ongoing and past series

Solum / Saxum | Solaria | Fleinvaer

Solum/Saxum

(Soil / Rocks)

2024 - present

‘Solum/Saxum’ is an ongoing body of work, made in collaboration with soil and rocks.

Both are magical - filtering the water we drink, growing the food we eat, helping us build our civilizations and absorbing vast amounts of CO2 from our air. As well as helping us to create the first ever known artworks, in caves around 64,000 years ago.

Instead of being used to depict a scene or for a practical purpose, here soil and rocks are my active collaborators. The series celebrates their beauty and importance to life on our planet.

Pigments are made in collaboration with clay, limestone and iron oxide as well as rainwater, before being poured, guided and layered onto raw cotton canvas (as well as found surfaces like antique book covers and wood), over a series of days.

Sourced from a variety of locations, the works created from them condense place and time, connecting us to different landscapes, eras and histories.

Solaria

(of the sun)

2024 - present

‘Solaria’ is an ongoing body of work, made in collaboration with the sun, ocean, seasalt and algae. Abstract works, that exist between art and science, photography and painting.

Each is created in direct sunlight over many hours or days using these ancient entities (seasalt being one of the oldest things on our planet) and an antiquated photographic solution

Solaria are both ancient and of the future; continuing to evolve ever so slightly as the minerals react to sunlight and each other. They are created in various locations, on a variety of papers, that each have a history of their own.

The series contradicts the age-old idea of an artwork being a fixed entity; instead presenting (and celebrating the beauty in) evolution. Each is its own magical micro universe.

Solaria (Fleinvaer)

2025

A series following on from Solaria. Created in Fleinvaer, an archipelago of islands off northern Norway, as part of a funded residency at The Arctic Hideaway. Made in collaboration with the sun, ocean, rocks, sand, wind, rain, hail, seasalt and algae.

Created around this remote tiny island, largely on long stretches of raw cotton canvas - the works evolved over many hours and days in collaboration with the sun and natural elements found there.

Here the weather was a particularly active participant with storms, hail and ever-present wind all contributing to the final works.