This pen and ink drawing on cotton rag paper was created using a dip pen and indian ink.
This work is an exploration of movement in the landscape, particularly migrating sand dunes, using mark-making to illustrate the grasses, which partly pin them down. It sits within a broader practice concerned with movement, particularly light and wind, and how these forces shape what we see.
I am interested in how landscape holds and generates stories. These are shaped by wind, light, time, and by the traces of those who pass through. We attach our own meanings to places of belonging, care, and loss, but these exist alongside longer, ongoing narratives of change. This drawing reflects a landscape in constant transition, where form is continually reconfigured and never fixed.
Across my work, I approached landscape as active rather than still. Change, shift, and instability are central, not only as physical processes but as a way of thinking about how we exist within these environments as part of their unfolding, rather than separate from them.
- the artist