from the studio of the heart
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Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.
Pentecost Garden, 2025
28 × 38cm / 11 × 15” (approx)
Monotype with Chine collé on Fabriano Unica printmaking paper. Signed, titled and dated on reverse.
This year Lent seemed more poignant than usual with war raging and a politically tumultuous landscape making for much anxiety. I was privileged to be able to take time, to get up early, and go into the studio where I can both pray and make work, meditating on the glimpses of garden or morning just seen. I saw the shift of lightening dawns and growing foliage which was how this image came about - hopefully infused with light of an early spring morning.
Lent Dawn, 2025
28 × 38cm / 11 × 15” (approx)
Monotype with Chine collé on Fabriano Unica printmaking paper. Signed, titled and dated on reverse.
During Ascentiontide 2025 I visited Buxton, U.K. The place seemed to me to be infused with an idea of fresh spring water, under the hills and flowing all about even into a well in the town near the Buxton Crescent Hotel. The well, where people filled their containers with this pure water, is known as St. Ann’s. St. Ann was the mother of Our Lady and the grandmother of Jesus. An inscription at the well reads, ‘A well of living waters’.
When I was home, I made a series of works based on photographs I had taken on my visit. Whilst making this series I was also thinking about a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Gust of Wind 1872 - I have a postcard of it by my studio window after seeing it at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the spring time.
England hills, Buxton, U.K, 2025
28 × 38cm / 11 × 15” (approx)
Monotype with Chine collé on Fabriano Unica printmaking paper. Signed, titled and dated on reverse.
Not that good an artist really,
but working on it.