After Lockdown

All year I’ve been making ink from trees, bugs and flowers. The colours are alive – they fade, they shift, they interact and alter each other on the page like people do in a bar.
In the studio, I work with a collection of canvases for After Lockdown, made from the backdrop of my previous workspace. On the largest, I draw a Beech tree and use it for an interactive installation at The Cotton Factory: “What’s different for you, since the Lockdowns?”. The responses from that and from interviews underpin these pieces, are written into them with the natural inks I’ve made. Some will fade, some will deepen. All inks will change over time, as humans do.”