Eco-Therapeutic Arts Practice

My personal art practice involves working with natural pigments form plants and minerals found in the local landscape.

Processing pigment is a slow almost meditative practice, somewhat like the process of personal healing, this can’t be hurried, it is counter to the cultural norms of productivity and efficiency, there ritualistic feeling about this process. Often, I work with what is there and available rather than specifically seeking things out but being with a place over a long period of time, returning and forming a relationship with a place ad its inhabitants, human and more than human.

Working with pigments is feels alchemical, of burning, of grinding, dissolving, separating ultimately leading to transformation.  On a therapeutic level I am interested in how this process aits alongside my own experience of rupture, recovery and transformation, how it might resonate with others and the land itself.  I work towards making art works which can express this journey encompassing both the beauty within the materials and the process and also the disruption inherent in its origins.

I am currently developing a research proposal for an arts practice PhD.

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