Mementoes
Our first full year living in Orkney, captured as a print.
I love beachcombing. You’re welcome to join me, but you have to promise to wear lots of clothes with big, empty pockets. Mementoes is a celebration of that love, and how these collected small natural finds have come to represent so many of the equally small yet important moments for me in my first year living and working in Orkney. It’s an homage to a variety of events, times and places, rather than a specific representation of one. Each object in this print - be it shell, curtain, feather or view - has a story to tell, and whilst these are personal to me, I want it to touch that part of all of us - perhaps abandoned to childhood - that yearns to bring that stick/stone/feather home from the walk because It Is Important.
Edition of nine, signed and numbered
Hand pulled using oil based ink on Japanese Hosho paper
Sold unframed and unmounted, wrapped in archival tissue and posted in a sturdy postal tube
Part admission of my hoarding tendencies on walks, part tribute to our first year living in Orkney, Mementoes captures the fleeting first impression of this new, wild and varied world I find myself working in. I have a long way to go before I feel I will be able to truly capture Orkney and its wildness in the glory it deserves, but from the shelter of my studio I am at least able to pore over my favourite things, picked up on beaches, beside lochans, discovered in books. The view here is a composite of several places and times, reflected in the year-round offering on display on my windowsill.