Works

A selection of work from ongoing and past series

Solum / Saxum | Solaria | Fleinvaer

Close-up of a person's hand pulling back layers of a dirty, white, textured fabric or material to reveal a rough surface underneath.

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.

Solum/Saxum 4 (2025) | 73 x 92 cm | Rain, Limestone, Clay, Water on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 6+7 (2025) | 32 x 47 cm + 36 x 48 cm | Limestone, Clay, Iron Oxide, Water on Unstretched Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 20 (2025) | 70 x 72 cm | Limestone, Yellow Clay, Water on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 14 (2025) | 73 x 60 cm | Limestone, Clay, Natural Titanium Dioxide, Water on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 16 (2024) | 73 x 60 cm | Limestone, Iron Oxide, Water on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 37 - Triptych (2025) | 13.3x19.7 | 14x22.2 | 17.8 23.2 cm | Limestone, Clay, Water on antique book covers

Solum/Saxum 15 (2025) | 73 x 92 cm | Rain, Limestone, Clay, Water on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solum/Saxum 32 - Diptych (2025) | 32 x 44 cm x 2 | Limestone, Clay, Water on wood panel

Solum/Saxum 20 (2025) |100x80 cm | Clay, Limestone, Rainwater on Sheer Fabric

Solum/Saxum 22 (2025) | 73 x 92 cm | Limestone, Clay, Rainwater on Raw Cotton Canvas

A hand holding a small amount of white salt on a black surface with a pattern of scattered salt grains.

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. Each is its own magical micro universe.

Created in various locations, on a variety of often antique papers, each are embedded with stories, memories and histories of their own.

Our future depends on our co-existence with the more-than-human world. These works are a way to connect with it better. To work with entities such as the ocean, algae and salt to share their magic and learn from them. It has never been more important to do so.

Solaria 2 (2024) | 21 x 30 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on antique card

Solaria 13 (2024) | 24 x 30 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on antique book cover

Solaria 40 (2025) | 37 x 33 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, Algae on Watercolour Paper

Solaria 25 (2024) | 17.5 x 25 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Cotton Rag Paper

Solaria 13 (2023) | 34 x 48 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Unbleached Paper

Solaria 27 (2024) | 60 x 85 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Cotton Rag Paper

Solaria 32 (2025) | 20x 30 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, Algae on Seaweed Paper

Solaria 15 (2024) | 30 x 40 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Unbleached Paper

Solaria 28 (2024) | 60 x 85 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Cotton Rag Paper

A large, crumpled piece of gray fabric or plastic with blue stains, partially covering a small stone on a rugged, grassy hillside with rocks and sparse vegetation.

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.

Solaria (Fleinvaer) Diptych (2025) | 30 x 40 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solaria (Fleinvaer) 3 (2025) | 40 x 80 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solaria (Fleinvaer) 6 (2025) | 40 x 120 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solaria (Fleinvaer) 1 (2025) | 77 x 43 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Raw Cotton Canvas

Solaria (Fleinvaer) 3 (2025) | 18 x 24 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Silk

Solaria (Fleinvaer) 2 (2025) | 40 x 61 cm | Light Sensitive and Red Iron Salts, Sun, Seawater, Salt, on Silk