2021 Botanical

2020 – brought with it Covid-19, a Global Pandemic which effected plans, scuppered schedules and demanded new beginnings…

Lockdown 1 presented me with the opportunity of introspection and retrospection. In my search for substance and sanity I took to the garden; to garden and to draw from life with the aim of finding reason, reconnection to the language of my expression, along with clues for prospective directions to go in my work.  I was inspired by a heightened awareness of the shadow-play surrounding me during this time.

My probes with pencil, paper and photography lead my observations to evolve on to the canvas surface where I used acrylics as a means to consider and produce the prelude to a series of botanical meditations.