Work: Packwood Fragments
22 x 126cm. Sold.
22 x 16cm. Sold.
22 x 15cm
29x 21cm
32 x 22cm. Sold.
21 x 15cm. Sold.
22 x 16cm
30 x 28cm
30 x 28cm
21 x 15 cm. Sold. Winner of the Westmorland Landscape Prize 2019
21 x 15cm
22 x 16 cm
16 x 22cm. Sold.
Packwood Fragments
Packwood Fragments: A series of unique monotypes based on the Topiary Garden at National Trust property Packwood House in Warwickshire. The prints explore how gardens and nature can be manipulated beyond all recognition. Views of the garden are depicted as hyper-green alien landscapes, striking, startling and synthetic, bright and luridly coloured, rendering the yew trees unnatural and incongruous. They celebrate the English Pastoral and also explore the subjective nature of value, particularly in relation to what human beings choose to keep and what they choose to discard in creating a living landscape. The artworks interrogate the value we place in regulated beauty and question the morality of the dominion that we attempt to hold over the natural world. The prints are monotypes combined with image transfer printed onto a heavyweight, handmade Khadi paper.