Drawings, Paintings and Artist’s Books made in response to being in Dr. Neil’s Garden
Saturday 6th – Sunday 14th September 2025
At Thomson’s Tower in Dr. Neil’s Garden
11am-4.30pm Daily
Free Entry
In a world in which sustained attention feels to be constantly under attack, eroded from without and within, paying close attention becomes more urgently necessary than ever. Working with my ‘felt sense’ requires a unique attention that is an amalgamation of patience, gentleness, and curiosity and is driving my awareness, often in surprising ways. Simply by locating myself in the space of the garden and quietly exploring my surroundings with my gaze has been my starting point in this work. By slowing down and exploring deeper layers of place and self I find that I have made space for something else – something new- to emerge.
Taking form as a series of drawings, some of which I have made into a unique Artist’s Book form, this new body of work also includes a series of larger drawings all of which, when viewed together, form a panorama – though not a perfect one – articulating the delicate edges of the garden as they meet the surrounding landscape, both near and far – a ‘borrowed landscape’ according to the philosophy of Japanese garden design – allowing a seemingly small space to open into vastness and towards its utopian potential.