Across the Land, mixed media, ash trees above Rame Peninsula, 50x40cm, in oak frame (2cm width)
 
The woodland is layered; from the canopy trees to the stratified soil. The paint of my canvas is layered and exposed; forms and shaped emerge from the initial washes, drips grow into trees.
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In this series, I wanted to subvert the idea of the freedom of the open landscape. The dark vertical stems of the trees evoke notions of bars and oppression. I painted from the perspective of the woods themselves.  They gaze out over the human-altered landscape where they have been denied, relegated to the steep hillside but ready to march and recolonise.