Rooted in material and matter, my practice is led by honouring what it means to co-create with Earth. The collecting and hand-processing of natural materials guides me and I maintain an intimate relationship with the land. Making work with the consciousness of the material properties, acknowledging that each rock is a testament to the landscape’s history, weathered by time and elements. Understanding the intricacies of ochres, and the mineral iron oxides that make up the land creates a palette unique to the landscape around me. The work aims to serve as a joyful and optimistic appreciation of nature, engaging the audience with ideas of land conservation, heritage and sustainable practice.
@nessaspice took @summer.art03 and I to the incredible edgeland which features in her grad show artwork. Lower Halstow’s Brickfields is a truly magical place. The beach is build from victorian rubbish dumpings and what is left is hundreds of beautiful glass bottles and corners of plates… We engaged with the @hulkedproject immersive sound walk and found some incredible hunks of glass and detailed ceramics before talking a walk past the reed beds and through the woodlands… Come and see Vanessa’s ‘Saltings’ at the UCA Grad show 10-25th June for an immersive exploration of the glass bottle beach 🏺🌾🌊
Today I went back to my secondary school for a Hikaru Dorodango workshop with the talented Year 10s of skinners_kent …🧱🧡🟤 Over 40 successful shiny mud dumplings 👏👏👏 #Dorodango #WildClay #MudArt #ArtWorkshop
The final major project of my Fine Art degree is done!!! This piece marks the end of my time at UCA, I’ve had the best 3 years of creativity and have developed an art practice I love and am proud of.❤️ Our Grad show is from the 10th-25th June come and see what we’ve been working towards for the past 3 years…❤️ #UCAFineArt #GradShow #FinalMajorProject
Trusting movement as we trace a trodden path up and through the billowing hills, weaving through lumbering cattle to happen upon this chalky spiral labyrinth. No minotaur in sight, just a quiet dreamy story marked on the land. 🌀 #gettinglost #wandering #labyrinth
UCA Grad Show! Please come and #CelebrateCreativity from 10th - 25th June. More info uca.ac.uk/gradshow #UCAGradShow2025 #UCACanterbury #UCACanterburyFineArt #FineArtGraduates @unicreativearts @ucafineartcanterbury
This morning we gathered in Sandwich Bay for a low tide stroll led by volunteers of @nauticalarchaeologysociety (@saratrillo and Dan Yeates). Making encounters with around 10 wrecks and hulks of boats and aircrafts. A place of fleeting opportunity as the ruins cover and uncover at rapid pace, changing dramatically in short time. A knowledgeable local, Ian, shared his in depth knowledge of the wrecks and history of the coastline, he discussed the incredible variety of artifacts he’s found along the shore, from cannonball concretions, congreve rockets, glass onion bottles, elephant tusks and armstrong rounds. A magical morning. ⚓️🚢 #sandwichbay #nauticalarcheology #kentcoast
Quietly watching the hush of the reed beds. Wings beating, water rippling and a sparrow dancing in the sky. 🌾 #StodmarshNNR #birdwatching #wetland #marshland
Gathering the pure dark grey Gault Clay of Folkestone. 🪣
A day spent wandering the edge of land and sea at The Warren in Folkstone. Gathering seaweed, sea glass, foolsgold, fossils, pottery, hagstones and clay. Making with place and movement. Listening to the tide roll and crash and the pop of seaweed underfoot as the birds sang to us. #coastalwandering #folkestone #edgeland
My outcome from an experimental cyanotype film workshop ran by @robroachstudios today! Such an interesting way of combining analog making with digital moving image. Filmed in Broadstairs, Kent 🌊 #cyanotype #movingimage #analogphotography #kentartist
UCA{SUSTAIN}:edit 1 @uca_sustain_
Environment Collective @uca_environment_collective
Herbert Read Gallery @uca_kentgalleries
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Open until March 6th at UCA Canterbury 🌳
Some pictures of our collaborative canvas in response to our surroundings 🧡
Making with mud in Blean woods with @chloe_mckenzie_textiles @nessaspice @summer.art03 🤎
#makingwithplace #bleanwoods #mudart #togetherness
Setup for today’s crit… 🟤 (Gorgeous close up’s courtesy of @kate_killick 🧡) #earthartist #mudart #dorodango
Muddy studio experimenting 🟤🧱🧡 #workinprogress #mudart #rammedearth
Close up of Mudscapes which will be apart of the UCA{SUSTAIN}:edit 1 @uca_sustain_ exhibit in the Herbert Read Gallery from Wednesday 26th February until 6th March. 🧡
I find that using unprocessed clay earths straight from the ground far more interesting than hand-processed and refined clay. It keeps the essence, it carries place, it honours what it means to make with place. #makingwithplace #clayearth
Finding colour in the ground 💛🧡🤎
All four clay earths were gathered in the same woodland, fallen trees revealed the changing earth tones in the subsoil.
Mud emerging from the landscape and returning to it as tiny pinch pots. Nestled in tree roots, held by the river bank. #EphemeralArt #Transient #ClayEarth
We were challenged to use an unconventional outdoor space as a gallery in our week-long show ‘Elsewhere’. We invite you to explore the boundaries of the imagination and nature, pushing you to challenge your perception and to inspire curiosity. 🌳
‘Earthen Lumps’ is a response to five locations in Kent. Each mud ball, or dorodango, is carefully formed from mud collected along the Kentish coast, woodlands, wetlands and fields. Shaped and polished into fragile, precious forms, they rest upon old dressed stones. Together, they showcase a harmonious local palette, reveal the transformation of earthly material, and embody the patient, meditative art of the dorodango. By allowing the dorodangos to be exposed to the elements during this week-long outdoor exhibit, they will undergo further transformation, engaging in a quiet collaboration with their surroundings.
@nessaspice @aliolieu @tamilacreates @vblubluart @susie_scribbles_ @drinkable_paint_water @papss_art @maddies.creative @agarty_gallery @kat.hicks.99
#elsewhere #ucafineartcanterbury #siteresponsiveart #transience #kent
Embracing the impermanence and imperfections of earthly materials. #WabiSabi #PerfectlyImperfect #Transient 🧡
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#MakingWithPlace #Earthwork #Dorodango #MudArt #KentArtist
Mudscapes, Earthen Lumps, Transformation 🏺🟠🧱🟤
Making with my local landscapes in #Kent Creating a local palette #makingwithplace Digging and making with mud from #Blean #PegwellBay #WarrenFolkstone #BirchdenWoods
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#Earthwork #WalkingArtist #Ochre #WildClay #Dorodango
Dorodango progress… They feel like little planets of the places where I dug and gathered the mud. 🪐 #Dorodango #EarthArt #MudArt
Attempting to master the art of Dorodango... and learning that sometimes, things fall apart before they come together. #PerfectlyImperfect #Dorodango #MakingWithPlace
Walking, Making, Togetherness 🐦⬛
#MakingWithPlace #WalkingArtist #KentLandscape
Vanessa @nessaspice ‘Salt lines: Stories from the Winter Marsh’ Walk 🌾🐦⬛⛵️
#MakingWithPlace #WalkingArtist #KentLandscape
#worldsoilday 🧱
Oak Gall Ink Making 🪶🌰
We played around with Summer’s beautiful wild clay dyed canvas letting the waves submerge and collect shells in the fabric 🐚
#makingwithplace
A timelapse of our collaborative piece from today at Pegwell Bay 🦭 (kindly recorded by Vanessa) @summer.art03 @nessaspice 🐚
A collaborative piece with @nessaspice and @summer.art03 on canvas inspired by the colour and textures of Pegwell Bay 🐚
Some wild clay processing, found and dug in Folkestone 🧱
(Excuse the overgrown uni garden 🌱)
#wildclay #earthartist #folkestone #earthenware
Rocks, clays, ochres and rubble 🌰🧱 All found and ground in Kent and East Sussex woodlands 🍂🍃
#ochre #ironoxides #naturalpigment #pigmentforaging #paintwithsoil #foundandground #geologyandart #earthartist #eastsussex #kentartist
The testing and playing of my finds from today… Still a lot more to do and explore but some beautiful strong colours ⛰️ ⭐️ (and a bucket full of clay)
Some of todays finds at #TheWarren in #Folkstone / The first image is Gault Clay which is which I went specifically looking for, the tide was high so I didn’t get a huge amount but will definitely be making another trip to Folkestone soon! 🪨
#gualtclay #clayforaging #wildclay #kentartist #geology #ochre #naturalpigments #southeast #foraginguk
The textures and colours of the The Warren in Folkestone. ⛰️
I finally took a trip the The Warren, such an interesting geology and landscape… Found lots of exciting materials to play with..!
#geologyandart #earthartist #ochre #pigmentforaging #fieldtrip #geology #folkstone #thewarren #chalkcliffs
A test install ready for crit. This was a 1 week project. 🪨 The pieces include a mapping & pigment piece and my mud bowl. 🧱
Mud bowl 🧱
This is the wild clay I found and processed a couple of months ago.
Watercolours I made from natural earth pigments found in the Kent and East Sussex woodlands 🪨🍃🧱
#ochre #naturalpigment #pigmentforaging #paintwithsoil #foundandground #geologyandart #earthartist #eastsussex
The foraging and processing of natural materials. Rocks ground into beautiful watercolour pigments and mud processed into wild clay. Each stone, stick or lump of mud is rooted in the timeless rhythms of its surroundings, acknowledging that they have weathered by time and elements. 🌰
The install on friday! Komorebi is open today in the Herbert-Read Gallery! 🌳❣️
Clay foraging archives 🪨🍃🧱
You can find wild clay pretty much anywhere but this happens to be at a former clay quarry in my hometown so the clay was an absolute abundance!
I’m hoping to try out firing in the next two weeks so i’ll be sharing my natural pottery journey ❤️🏺
#wildclay #foraging #eastsussex #wealdclay #geologyandart #naturalpottery #earthartist
Captivating. 🪶
#seaside #botanybay #costalart
Each rock a testament to the landscapes history, weathered by time and elements. Creating a palette unique the landscape around me.
I’ve been reading Caroline Ross’ amazing book @foundandground . It has taught me so much about engaging with my surrounding through art and making, I owe this book a lot of appreciation.
The next step for me is to make paint and create site responsive work from the places that I found and created these pigments. So excited to further intertwine these processes into my practice 🌰🍃🪨
#earthart #earthpigments #foraging #paintmaking #woodland #natureart #kentcountryside #soil
I’ve been posting lots on my instagram stories the past few months but i feel now is a good time to update eveyone properly!
I’m so so excited about the work i’m doing at the moment, I feel as if my practice is finally starting to take shape and I want to take everyone though that journey so I intend to post a lot more behind the scenes stuff as that is as important to me as the final pieces!
My current work is taking a heavily process focused approach to making. It’s about foraging and having a closer connection and understanding of the land and sites i’m responding to in my work.
Woodland and walking have and always will be a big part of my life and being able to merge this with my art practice has been extremely rewarding and just feels so right…!
*These pics are of me exploring the realms of wild clay!!! I have wet processed lots and am hoping to give pit firing a go soon!*
Little spam incoming and lots of updates over the next months :D
#woodland #kentcountryside #highweald #landart #geology #natureartist #foraging #naturalpottery #wildclay #earthart #naturalpigments #worldpigmentday
Project: Dancing leaves and creaking trees 🍂
‘Dancing leaves and creaking trees’ was born out of a conversation I had with a friend where we discussed my relationship with woodland and walking. I grew up in a town within Ashdown forest, I have always been surrounded by trees and wildlife. I remember not appreciating having to walk the dogs everyday - it became a bit of a burden, but as the years went by it became engrained in my routine and it would feel as if a piece of me were missing on the days I didn’t walk through the woods. So much so, that when my dogs passed, me and my mum would still make the effort to go on a woodland walk each and every day that we could, it became that time of day where we would catch up with one another. My grandparents had a similar relationship with our woodland surroundings making it almost tradiation. When their time came, they wished for their ashes to be sprinkled in the woods, so that we did. The woods not only became a place of ritual, but it also become a place to grieve and unpack lost memories.
I think moving to Canterbury, away from the woodland has made these feelings more apparent. That change in routine has shown me just how much my walks in the woods mean to me. This project aims unviel my vunerable relationship with the woods as- well as supporting me in reconnecting with this part of my life while living away from home. I would like my audience to see my outcomes as both a physical journey exploring and walking but also an emotional journey of reestablishing this into my life in hope of inspiring the audience to do the same while ultimately making art that brings joy and comfort.
#fineart #woodland #artistbook #canterbury #blean #ashdownforest #eastsussex
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CV
Education/
Currently Studying towards Fine Art BA, University for the Creative Arts (2022-Present)
Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media Practice (2022)
International Baccalaurete Visual Arts Diloma (2021)
Pearson BTEC Extended Certificate in Art and Design (2021)
Solo & Collaborative exhibitions/
UPCOMING/
Environment Collective Exhibition / Herbert Read Gallery / 26th Feburary - 6th March 2025
Fine Art Auction 1st April 2025
Fine Art Degree Show 10th June 2025
2025
/Elsewhere/ A collaborative outdoor exhibtion, as part of the campus wide show at UCA. 27th January-2nd Feburary
We were challenged to use an unconventional outdoor space as a gallery in our week-long show ‘Elsewhere’. We invite you to explore the boundaries of the imagination and nature, pushing you to challenge your perception and to inspire curiosity. ‘Earthen Lumps’ is a response to five locations in Kent. Each mud ball, or dorodango, is carefully formed from mud collected along the Kentish coast, woodlands, wetlands and fields. Shaped and polished into fragile, precious forms, they rest upon old dressed stones. Together, they showcase a harmonious local palette, reveal the transformation of earthly material, and embody the patient, meditative art of the dorodango. By allowing the dorodangos to be exposed to the elements during this week-long outdoor exhibit, they will undergo further transformation, engaging in a quiet collaboration with their surroundings.
2024
/Komorebi: Suspended Woodland/ At The Herbert Read Gallery. A project for UCA’s Green Week, 22- 26 April. The timing connects to Earth Day on 22 April. https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
Responding to woodland as a fragile and precious ecology, Komorebi: Suspended Woodland is an exhibition developed by a group of artists on the BA Fine Art Course at UCA. Komorebi, the Japanese word for dappled sunlight filtering through trees, is a reminder of the beauty and ephemerality of the natural world. The works in the gallery have all been hung so nothing touches the walls or the floor, a canopy of suspended artworks. This creates an ethereal, otherworldly space, connecting to the woodland as a place we go to in our imagination. It also speaks of the vulnerability of nature, and our impact on it. A fragment of ancient woodland can still be found within walking distance of the UCA campus, squeezed on all sides by housing developments, but still a wild space to get lost in.
Responding to woodland as a fragile and precious ecology, Komorebi: Suspended Woodland is an exhibition developed by a group of artists on the BA Fine Art Course at UCA. Komorebi, the Japanese word for dappled sunlight filtering through trees, is a reminder of the beauty and ephemerality of the natural world. The works in the gallery have all been hung so nothing touches the walls or the floor, a canopy of suspended artworks. This creates an ethereal, otherworldly space, connecting to the woodland as a place we go to in our imagination. It also speaks of the vulnerability of nature, and our impact on it. A fragment of ancient woodland can still be found within walking distance of the UCA campus, squeezed on all sides by housing developments, but still a wild space to get lost in.
/Ikebana/ As part of the Monkton Sculpture Trail curated by Ruth Rollason at The Monkton Nature Reserve. July - September 2024
Inspired by the Japanese flower arrangement practice ‘Ikebana’ and its empowerment of fleeting beauty, a sculpture which symbolizes the immense web of wildlife at The Monkton Nature Reserve. As a contemporary artist living in Kent, my practice builds on the venturing and gathering of materials. Creating site-responsive work with materials found and hand-processed with special care taken to understand each found material, acknowledging that they have weathered by time and elements. Each stone or stick collected is rooted in the timeless rhythms of its surroundings, in this case, the chalk quarry.
2023
/Growing Pains/ In Collaboration with Sophie Chan, UCA Project Space, Canterbury
Project ‘Growing Pains’ is about creating an environment reminiscent of my childhood while sparking a universal feeling of nostalgia. In collaboration with Sophie Chan, we reconstructed a magical childhood bedroom with familiarity and comfort at the forefront of our creation. We wanted to create a physical space which carries the weight of the psychological landscape of childhood, taking you back to a state of mind filled with wonder and imagination. The installation should leave you yearning particularly for the emotional state of childhood, a time when innocence is imminent, and imagination thrives. Bringing childhood drawings to life through animation allows the unique opportunity to take a closer look at what is authentically imagined as a child, giving the audience a moment to reconnect with this state of mind.
2022
/Foundation Show/ A public exhibit at The University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
/Free House/ , Group Exhibit curated by Amelia Johnson at The Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkstone
2021
/End of Year show/ , Public Exhibit at Skinners Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells
2023
/Growing Pains/ In Collaboration with Sophie Chan, UCA Project Space, Canterbury
Project ‘Growing Pains’ is about creating an environment reminiscent of my childhood while sparking a universal feeling of nostalgia. In collaboration with Sophie Chan, we reconstructed a magical childhood bedroom with familiarity and comfort at the forefront of our creation. We wanted to create a physical space which carries the weight of the psychological landscape of childhood, taking you back to a state of mind filled with wonder and imagination. The installation should leave you yearning particularly for the emotional state of childhood, a time when innocence is imminent, and imagination thrives. Bringing childhood drawings to life through animation allows the unique opportunity to take a closer look at what is authentically imagined as a child, giving the audience a moment to reconnect with this state of mind.
2022
/Foundation Show/ A public exhibit at The University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
/Free House/ , Group Exhibit curated by Amelia Johnson at The Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkstone
2021
/End of Year show/ , Public Exhibit at Skinners Kent Academy, Tunbridge Wells
Other information/
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Other work experience including Front of house waitressing at The Tulip Tree Tearoom, Chiddingstone (2019-2021), Sales Assistant at M.Saltmarsh Artist Materials, Tunbridge Wells (2022-2024), Retail Assistant at Home Bargains, Canterbury (April 2024-Present)
