| Project Title: | Regeneration |
| Venue: | Abbey Church, North Berwick |
| Date: | 28th Feb – 1st March 2025 |
Artist Statement
My practice is rooted in exploring the language of the landscape and the layering of marks that record human presence over time. Working across painting, drawing, and textile processes, I weave together paint, ink, and Japanese paper to create layered surfaces that reflect the fragile, shifting nature of memory and place.
My background in textile design influences my approach, where the act of layering materials mirrors the layering of experiences and histories. Through translucent surfaces and mark-making, I seek to evoke the unseen narratives that landscapes hold — stories of change, regeneration, and resilience.
I am particularly drawn to the interplay between material and memory: how surfaces can hold echoes of what has passed, while remaining open to transformation. My work becomes a space where transience and permanence meet — a visual meditation on belonging, loss, and renewal.
You can find more of my work on facebook, Instagram and my website at the links below –
Contextual Statement
Regeneration is a site-responsive installation that emerged from engagement with the landscape surrounding Dunbar and the impact of Storm Arwen on the coastline. Drawing on personal memory and natural processes, the work unfolds across a series of large-scale paintings, textile panels and translucent structures, each layered with hand-drawn marks using ink, paint and natural pigments. These materials, many of which were gathered and transformed from the local environment, echo the slow rhythms of erosion, weather, and regeneration found in both land and life.
At the heart of the exhibition is a sense of transition — from rupture to repair, from isolation to connection. The works are informed by time spent walking, noticing, and being present in the landscape. They hold space for introspection, offering a contemplative environment that blurs the boundary between internal and external worlds.
This project grew from a period of research and making that centred on home, belonging, and the ways we carry memory through place. Through material exploration and quiet repetition, it explores how we re-form ourselves after disruption, much like the land regenerates after a storm. It is a call toward gentler ways of being — with ourselves, with each other, and with the more-than-human world.
A video of the exhibition with excerpts from a collaborator discussion can be viewed via the link below –
Thank you to musician Chris Tolley and aerial videographer Andy Smith for collaborating on this project
Project Documentation
