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Statement
I have been visiting Hemerdon Mine, a redundant Tungsten mine on the edge of Dartmoor National Park for many years as part of route when walking to Dartmoor. I used to live at Hemerdon village when the mine was in business and the local economy benefitted from the mine on many levels. Having worked, in the past as a mason for many years in mostly harsh conditions, you find beauty in the most unlikely places. The poetry of an angle of a wall against another, or the way the light catches a old rusty piece of metal laying in the grass, the strength of fauna pushing its way through cracks in masonry, I find poetry and a sense of euphoria in the normally unseen. These experiences lifted me then and are central to the integrity of my practice now.
Found Compositions / Blue String (Photography)
The images are records of ‘sculptural drawings’ found in situ and manipulated by the weather. These ‘drawings’ change daily and are very much dependent on the wind and rain for their structure. I have been returning to record these changes on a regular bases over a period of 4 years.
Born 1958, Southampton. As a mature student started a Btec General Art & Design at Plymouth followed by a degree in Fine Art at Exeter (University Of Plymouth) completed in 1997.
Having been a mason all my working life, I experienced nature and the elements at its most raw. I have always been fascinated when refurbishing an old building how nature will always reclaim its place and admire the strength of a root tunneling through joints and cracks in masonry to form fully formed bushes and trees.
My initial inspiration came from the work of Richard Serra, Turner, Richard Long, Jackson Pollock & Sir Stanley Spencer. Surface and texture and more importantly integrity, are essential to my practice.