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ROCKS
"I started drawing rocks as a result of an invitation to join a group of artists on a working holiday at the Hookses, a coastal cottage in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. It was a turning point from the earlier work, which had been mostly focussed on the figure in an environment, and the beginning of a new focus on landscape generally. Rocks strike me as fundamental to all of landscape and therefore of life itself. They are both real and metaphorical foundations of everything. I am interested in the way they feel solid yet at the same time are full of movement. They show they were once fluid and can still be broken. Since the first images drawn in Wales, I have added others seen in France, Spain and the English Lakes. Currently I am developing work from the ancient track over the fells between Coniston and Seathwaite known as the Walna Scar Road."
Two of the new Walna Scar series of lithographic monoprints have been selected for the forthcoming exhibition of contemporary international lithography Stone Plate Grease Water at the Museum for Modern Art for Wales, from March 2007.
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