“The Art of Nature on Paper”

Is an environmental statement using natural mediums to facilitate nature to create art. Promoting pesticide and plastic free living. Preserving little precious untarnished moments of nature.
Having spent much of my life beside the sea or on the sea, beaches are an obsession of mine. Moving to Guernsey, which has some of the strongest tides in the world the patterns and nature of the intertidal zone became a fascination.
Never quite being satisfied with my effort to capture the amazing, transient patterns when the tide receded, I decided to print directly print off the beach, using charcoal powder as it has to have little or no detriment to the environment.

I just love the raw quality of the prints which still seem to retain the very essence of the sea.
My preoccupation with natural organic materials has led me to…
My current body of work which is created from organic inks I have made from plants in my garden. The inks have unique properties often changing to the opposite colour overnight, and interacting with each other in unexpected ways. Each colour takes at least 3 hours to produce.
This facet of “The Art of Nature on Paper” is called ‘Blooms’ it has emanated from observing pesticide free soil samples grown in petri-dishes which dictated the circular composition of the work.