‘The Breeze’ Part of the Bark & Grain Collection
‘The Breeze’
fallen, found, transformed.
This piece of bark fell from a tree and landed at my feet. Rough, cracked, completely imperfect — and absolutely beautiful.
I didn't try to reshape it. I let the edges stay jagged, let the form speak for itself. Then I followed its curves with gold leaf and painted flowing patterns into every ridge and hollow.
Nature already did the hard work. I just listened.
There's something deeply grounding about working with what the earth offers you — no canvas, no plan, just a conversation between hand and material. Every piece of bark is different. Every one asks for something different.
This one asked for gold and movement.
Thyntesfield National Trust , Bristol 2025
My miniature works begin with naturally shed bark fragments from a 200-year-old Crimean Pine at Tyntesfield, Bristol. Each piece carries a memory — of light, stillness, and family walks beneath this historic tree. Using the bark as both canvas and storyteller, I transform these fragments into intimate, hand-painted works that honour nature, memory, and quiet resilience.
Instead of traditional canvas, I treat the bark itself as the foundation — its shape already formed by time, weather, and the life of the tree. I carefully clean, preserve, and stabilise each fragment, then paint into its natural lines and textures. Gold leaf is added not as ornament, but as reverence — a way to acknowledge that small, overlooked things can hold profound value and history.
Each piece is one of a kind, inviting the viewer to come closer — to observe, to notice, to hold something personal. This series is about memory, nature, and the beauty found in what we often overlook. Through these works, I preserve a real place and a real moment in time.
MINIATURES
Exhibited ‘The Breeze’ & ‘Broken Wing’ in a group exhibition
in Kamnik, slovenia in December , 2025
‘Broken
Wing’
Broken Wing is created on a naturally shed fragment from a 200-year-old Crimean Pine at Tyntesfield, Bristol. In my bark series, I often begin with a tangible form or shape that reveals itself within the fragment, allowing the natural silhouette to guide the creative process. Here, form I found is a broken wing waited to be found and preserved and treasured.
The hand-painted blue lines follow the bark’s natural contours, capturing a moment of quiet movement, a grounding moment, finding calm and stillness. Gold leaf traces the edges like a whisper of light, reinforcing both the fragility and resilience of the material.
Working with bark allowed me to reconnect with physical texture, steady repetition, and the grounding rhythm of hand-painted detail. Creating Broken Wing woking with natural material on this new series became part of my own healing — a space where both my ind and body could find calm.
Broken Wing honours the gentle forces that move through us, reshape us, and remind us to breathe again.
If life has been chaotic lately or too loud and you’re craving more calm, lightness and joy, this piece is for you.
