Winter Work 2013. Solo exhibition. The Old School Gallery, Bleddfa, Powys.

Set in the winter forest, imaginary narratives have been used to expand space and time. It is during the winter months that the bare bones of the landscape are revealed. The forest becomes a place of sculptural elements, a place of memory, of solitude and stories.

Winter Work exhibition, Bleddfa
Winter Work, Bleddfa

The twin motifs of tree and house are entwined here. The large blackthorn house sculpture Lyric is slowly becoming a grove of trees, a place of unease, a piece of the forest cut out with a pair of scissors.

 
Blackthorn House Lyric sculpture and Wildwood woodcut
Blackthorn House Lyric and Wildwood
Blackthorn House Story sculpture
Blackthorn House Story

A miniature blackthorn house, Story, made from thorns and fragments of wood veneer is drifting away on the forest floor.

Winged Trees, woodcut
Woodcut, Winged Trees
Wildwood, woodcut
Woodcut, Wildwood

Two large house woodcuts reveal an unsettled interior.

Linocut, Myth
Linocut, Myth
Linocut, Paper Crown
Linocut, Paper Crown

Fairy tales echo around this work. The house, a place of safety, a place of childhood memories, has become part of a larger narrative.

Figures in some of the prints, Myth, The Charcoal Burner, Rabbit with Box, appear to be enacting a solitary drama. The forest has become an arena, a stage where stories can be played out.

Etching, Rabbit with Box
Etching, Rabbit with Box
Etching, Red Fox
Etching, Red Fox
Etching, The Poison Tree
Etching, The Poison Tree
Linocut, The Charcoal Burner
Linocut, The Charcoal Burner
Linocut, Towards the Fold
Linocut, Towards the Fold
Linocut, Michaelmas
Linocut, Michaelmas
Drawing for Winter Work
Drawing for Winter Work
Four House drawing
Four House drawing
Blackthorn
Blackthorn

The full sets of prints can be seen on the Printmaking page.