‘No Goodbyes’ is a brand new series and creative direction, embracing a more sustainable, slow practice, using handmade, foraged and/or eco-based materials from trusted companies. These new images welcome in a new era in my art, inviting spiritual awakenings to take material form and using pigments, techniques and gentleness to create works that leave no harmful trace on our Earth.

After much research, I have moved into honey-based watercolours, creating mixed media works out of chalk, rice bran crayon and coloured pencil. Other paints include homemade egg tempera, mixed with foraged stone pigment, and a heritage Swedish paint made from wheat, linseed oil and iron oxide. Working with natural paints in the studio has brought surprise and intrigue into the creation of my work, each piece having more texture and originality. Connecting to the whole life cycle of creating art, from its natural origin in the landscape, to the slow processing into paint, and finally its completed form, has been an enriching and grounding experience for me. A holistic way to art-making.

Therefore with this new intention, the production of new works will be slower and more gentle, as I gather from the natural landscape and stay in tune with my own energy.

‘No Goodbyes’ comes from a sensation that endings, may not be as final as we perceive. The interplay of space, time, life and death is a great mystery to the conscious mind, that the body intuits more fully. There is deep wisdom in our cells. There are places, memories and people the body can connect to when the mind quietens. As ever, I dedicate this work to my mother JoAnne, the beautiful plants and animals of the world, and all the people and ancestors who have inspired and helped me.