Blue Me Down

This body of work is from a residency I ran in Wales with some somatic dancers in 2020. I created abstract line drawings, in pencil and in ink, of the landscape and of the surrounding rock formations. I made the drawings and then gave them to the dancers, the dancers then danced the drawings back into the landscape. Back in London, I gave the drawings to non-dancers for them to interpret the line in their own way 

As part of this project I also created a large series of landscape watercolour paintings. The waterieness of these paintings is very important. In them, I am looking at the weather and the sky that constantly changes. The landscape shapes stay the same as the weather changes around them. Throughout the series the landscape becomes increasingly simplified as the sky becomes more dominant. I am working to distil the essence of the environment. In creating these paintings I was thinking of the watercolours of Anselm Kiefer and Per Kirkeby,