Gwylwyr y Môr / Watchers of the sea

The work below has been collated from three ongoing projects in support of my application for Immersive Arts Explore 2025 funding. Please scroll down to see work from each of the three projects in turn: Gwylwyr y Môr, Ty Hir, and The Happy Tree.  The images can be expanded by clicking on them.

Gwylwyr y Môr / Watchers of the Sea

The drawings below form the starting point for a proposed installation which incorporates sounds of the sea.  The groynes are located at the mouth of the Afon Ogwen near Bangor, North Wales and are subject to erosion by wind, sun, and sea.  

Ty Hir / Longhouse

In a field off the A4080 near Brynsiencyn, Ynys Môn, is a ruined longhouse.  It would once have been housed a family and their livestock.  I have been drawing the house over a number of years, witnessing its increasing state of ruin and the steady growth of vegetation that conceals it.  In this ongoing project, I explore what the house may once have been, and what it may yet be.

The Happy Tree

The Happy Tree was inspired by a series of conversations with Belgian teacher and ghost writer Amandine Robaey through which we developed a taxonomy of the notion of happiness.  To date, I have created three linocut prints in what I envisage to be an ongoing series.  The photos below show the three prints (Two Happies, All Things Were One Thing, Melancholy Happy) and elements from the process of their creation.