Shifting Waterscapes: screenprinted canvases

I was commissioned by multidisciplinary artists Ellen Wiles and Arun Sood to create a series of canvases for their exhibition, Shifting Waterscapes at THG. Their beautiful show explores various watery ecologies in the UK, looking at water resilience and nature restoration, as well the entangled inhabitants and histories of these waterscapes.

I tried to capture in the canvases some of the qualities of the springline mires in the Blackdown Hills and at Otterhead Lakes. These are really interesting habitats that include wet woodland, deciduous woodland, grassland, freshwater streams and bogs.

You can find out more about how I printed and painted them in this blog post.

Alongside the exhibition, I ran a series of community printing workshops exploring water and plants. These were family drop-in sessions at THG; with schools; in asylum accommodation and with resettled families in community centres.