For more than six months, I have been thinking about wetlands and art, in particular, how I can make pieces that evoke wetlands and provoke positive feelings in the viewer. Through the driest summer on record, I visited wetlands across England as they struggled with the effects of drought, and experimented with various techniques, when I returned to my studio.
These works are based on alcohol inks on lightweight drafting paper, with added pencil frottage and piercings. Each piece is A4 with a A3 frame of tracing paper and cartridge paper. In the exhibition space, I was able to mount these on the garden-side windows, to allow the daylight to partially penetrate.
These three preparatory pieces are (from left to right) on paper, using scrunched paper relief, alcohol inks and pencil (width = ), mixed inks on Duralar (height = ) and mixed inks and Letraset on tracing paper (width = ).
