Birds and Bundles

I’ve been taking some time out from project-based work this week, to explore and re-inspire myself, a bit of a pit-stop and a recap of what I want to do in my own work.

Now that I have a few projects on the go to feed my more sociable side and to learn from that kind of dialogue, I can also start making more room to focus on the individual side of my practice, and create more of a balance again.

Yesterday I went to The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge and wandered around photographing the birds. The ones I took in the tropical house, where the condensation blurred the images, are some of my favourites, like this image where the beautiful sheen on the trumpeter bird’s breast feathers glints through the mist.

Today I spent time in West Woods near where I live - quiet time, taking it all in, the quiet whispering, rustling, echoing noises, and the treasures laid out at my feet.

I am re-connecting with simpler, earlier work that came out of gathering/collecting objects and materials that catch my eye, bringing them together on the spot with natural fibres and clays, then letting the materials speak of the places and experiences that link them.

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