For this body of work, I was observing the rapid changing profile of the rural UK landscape: building sites, fencing, bridges, roads, the slow assimilation of green space into infrastructure, sitting uneasily side by side with what remains untouched.
Angular, structural forms, girders, hoardings, planning lines, cut and interlock with looser, curving shapes that push back against them. Colour is drawn from both worlds at once, the greys and ochres of concrete and steel set against the greens, rusts and darker tones of land still finding its way through. Beneath the paint, drawn under layers of pencil, ink, charcoal map the complex interconnection between planning, infrastructure and the natural world they cut across, asking how a landscape gets claimed, altered and remembered, and whether nature keeps finding its way through regardless. These paintings are a culmination of patterns, shapes that have blended into one new version of the landscape as we know it.
