Saturation Point -SAP

28/02/2026

Materials describing themselves… Arnside clay molehill mud hay lime & gypsum jelly ears in the studio with Holy Creature Joss McGregor this week

08/02/2025

Fricken Clod 2024 embossed roots & brambles on Fabriano (rosapina) hawthorn ink & lime plaster 30cm x 30cm

23/08/2024

Seems a long time ago now but chuffed An Ecology of Everything was selected to be highlighted this week by AXIS 💚

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New Art Highlights of the week includes: Paul Newman, Sam Pickett, Marcia Teusink and David Appleyard Fear Terrains (Gardens), 2024 Paul Newman A series…

23/08/2024

Seems a long time ago now but chuffed that An Ecology of Everything has been highlighted on Axis. I miss the monthly forages 💚

New Art Highlights of the week includes: Paul Newman, Sam Pickett, Marcia Teusink and David Appleyard Fear Terrains (Gardens), 2024 Paul Newman A series…

23/02/2024

Clay (head) bowl with snowdrops

10/02/2024

A journey across the fields to the trees: using the clay I took on a walk (& pushed into limestone, hawthorn & hazel) as a starting point for some charcoal/plant lake pigment prints - I like the way the marks left by the materials reference the landscape they came from 🖤 & printing with charcoal from the fire feels like alchemy

02/02/2024

St Alfred’s Cake imbolc offering: in the spirit of our ancestors use a daldinia concentrica as a transportable fire lighter - light a fire & include a dry cake - using tongs remove the smouldering cake & put it in a tin can with some newspaper, some holes punched in it & a wire handle - go for a walk with your cake in a tin across the fields - if it’s windy take care there may briefly be flames - carry your cake in a tin to a tree & leave it there as an offering - on the way back collect more cakes if you find them for next time 🖤 (I did it with you in spirit)

12/12/2023

You’ll find Thistle Bonnet at ‘Artist Interventions in a Time of Crisis’ ‘s first group show right now along with lots of other thought provoking, contextually layered artworks to exercise your senses 💚 I forgot to mention: don’t be shy ~ BECOME BEE ~ pick it up, bury your nose in the flower heads (they’re not at all prickly) close your eyes & inhale DEEPLY to experience intensest honey fragrance 🐝
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05/12/2023

Sneak peak of ecology of everything at group show curated so thoughtfully by & SPARK: Artist Interventions in a Time of Crisis
Rogue Project Space, 9th Dec-13th Jan, is the first exhibition by members of .
The exhibition aims to engender conversation and collaboration and foster the cross-pollination of ideas around the climate crisis.

Featuring: Artist A & Artist B, Chris Alton, John-Paul Brown, Eleanor Capstick, Nerissa Cargill Thompson, Maya Chowdhry, Helen Clare, Louise Ann Clarke, Sara Kristina Davies, Sarah Feinmann, Sarah Grant, Anthony Hall, Jackie Haynes, Tracy Hill, David Jacques, Adele Jordan, Nick Jordan, Lizzie King, Sophy King, Jane Lawson, Helena Lee, Ruth Moilliet, Rob Mullender-Ross, Mike Perry, Sam Pickett, Gwen Riley Jones, Lucy Roberts, Heather Ross, Rae Story, Steve Sutton, TEA, Debbie Yare

Alongside a programme of events alongside the exhibition beginning with:
PV 8th December, 6-8, with performances by Artist A and Artist B, and Maya Chowdhry
SPARK #18 9th December, 11-4: Talks and Q&A by invited speakers Rebecca Chesney, Liz Postlethwaite and Debbie Yare
Keep your eyes open for further events


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14/11/2023

Ongoing story of a shopping list part 1: I found some deliquescing ink caps by a tree - too fragile to move so I placed them on a shopping list from my pocket & left them - retrieved yesterday post storm Debi (wip)

08/11/2023

Nice hapazome flag now leaning up in the kitchen ~ still good & strong plant pigments pounded out in late October… periwinkle, fennel, herb robert, clover, old cotton, black thorns & an elder stick ~ flapping about a few weeks ago on the beach, centering the gathering, a procession, a symbol of the wild & natural, a motif for earth worship 💚