Artists and makers often look to the natural world for inspiration, for processes, materials, textures and forms, its rhythms and patterns, its vulnerability and its endurance and this exhibition seeks to explore what contemporary nature collections might be, what might they mean, what story might they tell?
This exhibition revisits that impulse through a contemporary lens and aims to celebrate and showcase diverse creative responses, exploring the question of what it means to observe, collect, engage and respond to nature in the present day.
‘I am essentially a landscape artist, although not in the traditional sense. I work in mixed media, aiming to explore and document our relationship with the environment. I don’t always work on a conventional two dimensional surface and I like to incorporate the use of old tins, ceramic fragments and matchboxes within my work. My works are rarely made from virgin materials, the work comes from things that are remade or recycled, or changed and repurposed’