This piece is made with oak gall ink on etching paper, it is part of a on-going series.

For a number of years, I lived in an ancient eighty-acre Welsh oak woodland, off-grid. I was utterly immersed in the experience of being in the woodland.

It was here that I discovered that ink could be made using oak galls and started exploring the possibilities of this very luxurious and sensual material – nick-named ink of Kings, Poets and Monks.

I wanted to make work ‘of the woodland’, I explored the process and chemistry of making the ink and thereby developed my own technique of making and using it. I find the oak gall ink very exciting and with the techniques that I have discovered am looking to create a shimmer, a vibration through using close tones, using the support as light source as well as colour experience.

I am intrigued by the idea that opposites are always present and attempt to paint contradictions of personality and situation. I am interested in differences of rhythm, tempo and repetition, and how they produce irregularity in marks, layers; also colours and their inherent instability.

All these contradict the inherent flatness of paintings and this is where I seek to explore the possibilities and impossibilities of expressing these liminal moments in paint.

The work is glazed and framed with a simple white painted wooden band.

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