“Guardians is my interpretation of being immersed in Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve. This special place is an ecological remnant which once was part of a vast subtropical rainforest. Here, the mountain forest pulsates with life and deep still silence. I feel-walk through the dense and complex layers of forest forms, observing the light, listening to bird calls, guarded by Cedar and Ficus. The canopy of millions of leaves, interwoven undergrowth, the twisting roots and vines, and the embrace of the strangler fig embody unseen forces that shape the natural world. I feel as though I’m in a timeless space, a primordial landscape, an ancient place which connects me to the source of Life.”

Requiem

Pigment liner on Arches paper 2025 75 x 105 cm

Requiem is an ink pen drawing, tree portraits made of lines, a moment suspended. Fragility and strength both hold place in the landscape. Although I am bound by the path which we must walk upon here, I can merge momentarily into this field but mostly I look into it, sensing.

Remnant, fragment, trace- this is what is left of the forest, a corridor of lives lived and ancestral connections disrupted. An elegy of remembrance and longing. Stillness witnesses everything, all of time, all that has come to pass and all that is unfolding now. This work seeks to rejoice, through form and gesture, the abundant beauty of the living forest."