The writer Lucy Shaw has written the exhibition text, with the following excerpt:

“We forget, sometimes, the tranquility of the Earth.

Making it our own with visitor’s centres and roads, mapping out the wilderness, loudly diminishing the unknown, with footpaths and instant photographs sent as text messages home.

Package holidays to the frontier for every urban pioneer, while the natural landscape disappears to a future of industrial ideas. We give it smoother edges and wrap it with a bow”

Works in progress and studio pre exhibition;

Photographs taken during my time on the Sim Residency, in Reykjavik Iceland.

Living and working in this isolated part of Finland, where the cold winter lasts for much of the year and the lakes are covered in a thick layer of ice has been very influential on my work. During my residency at Saksala Artradius I began drawing tiny circles in an effort to imitate the way in which snow forms when it lands, small particles building up to make a whole. Using this process I have then traced from maps the numerous lakes in this area of Finland. The use of and distortion of maps is related to the experience of foreign landscapes, and how they are imagined or visualized before having been there, but are still unknown and mysterious until time has been spent in them. These drawings will be shown in ‘Between Shorelines’ at Saksala ArtRadius March 30th 2011  until May 1st.

Works in Progress, to be part of the ‘Between Shorelines’ exhibition.

Some drawings made with watered down black pigment in the studio. Saksala ArtRadius, Finland.

Silverbirch bark.

Scratched graphite on paper, 2010

Graphite on paper, 2010.

Open studios, NewBridge Project , 2010 ’Tide and Ink’ drawings

Pigment, watercolour, ink