Environmental Arts Practice

My practice bridges ecopsychology and creativity, I explore the ways in which human beings are intertwined in cycles of the natural world. I cultivate intimacy with the natural world by gathering natural materials, earth pigment; soil, clay, rock and bone and then transforming them into art materials. I collect parts of trees and plants, as well as growing my own dye plants to make colour. This process is part utilitarian but also relational, these materials act as my teachers during the act of transformation, it is a collaborative act where we both have agency and are both changed.

Images emerge which are expressive and often symbolic, through which I hope to give voice to the materials as well as my own human experience. My final images are a footprint of a much deeper journey. Working with natural pigments feels like a counter-cultural act—a resistance against over-exploitation and mass production, a call to be slower and quieter. By hand-crafting materials from the earth, I transform art back into ritual, embracing a slower, ecological creativity. This process prioritises magic over utility and play over perfection, inviting us to be curious.

Projects

Nigredo

Into the Darkness

• Nigredo

Earth Pigments

Earth Alchemy. Of the Land, from The Land

• Earth Pigments

Creithiau

Y Garth - The Watchful Ridge

• Creithiau

Gwyrddni

Community plant growing and ink making project in Bethesda with ‘Gwyrddni’

• Gwyrddni

Rainmaker

Arts Practice Meets Animism in the Lake District

• Rainmaker

Melin Pant Yr Ynn

Blaenau Ffestiniog Residency - slate pigment and map books

• Melin Pant Yr Ynn

Mulranny

County Mayo, Mulranny Arts Centre Residency

• Mulranny

Ynys Enlli Residency

A collaborative residency sharing practice around ‘materials’ and exploring the island together

• Ynys Enlli Residency

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