mixed media sculpture (galvanised wire mesh, plaster bandage, acrylic paint, and re-used swarf)

Imagine the sounding of a conch shell echoing across vast distances welcoming home or warning away; a place of shelter, of hidden depths and intriguing beauty.  Working quickly and intensively using found galvanised chicken wire, eyes closed, smiling and humming. I spend time just being around the form, touching it, feeling it, turning and testing until once more into action, wrapping it, enclosing it, capturing the form into solidity. From there into painting with gestures and motifs, jabs and strokes; bronze and blue, colours of earth, sea and sky, adding motifs from memory, from feeling, from dreams.  

(image credit John Thompson Imagery)