Sway environmentagency in that I was really

in that I was really taken by the crumbling earth that had fallen from the edge of the fence

As with several of my still life drawings of fruit the exercise is about colour and form and line… and many other things too

The Iris Siberica  a name given by Carl Linnaeus

there are glimpses of the fields on the other side of the river

using sticks and stones when I wished

Sway environmentagency in that I was reallyThis small piece forms part of a group of four that I made. They are part of a broader body of work looking at the Saltmarshes on the river Dart in Devon. I have been collaborating on a bioregional project now for several years, which has been reflected in methods and indeed practice. For these works I created a surface on the pastel paper with site specific pigments beside the reed beds of Black grass or Black reeds using their fallen leaves to print