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Before They Awake: Shatwell Edition, May 2023.

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WARNING SIGNAL: photography installation and participatory performance at Shatwell Farm, Somerset. June 17th – 25th 2023.

Hiding in the Field, August 2023. Watercolour on p Hiding in the Field, August 2023. Watercolour on paper.

Writing in my September newsletter today about the magic of the field and my new offerings for autumn.

Plus this new ‘Luck of the Draw’ watercolour will be gifted to someone.

Sign up at the link in my bio to enter your name in the draw.

#LEOonpaper #watercolour #fields #embodiedpractice #newsletter
Ahhh the joys of moving off the screen and onto pa Ahhh the joys of moving off the screen and onto paper. It’s hard to describe the satisfaction of seeing an image I’ve made materialise into an object.

It’s rare enough that I’m delighted and nervous every time. So many little decisions to make.

Thanks to Nick @theinkpotstudio for his patience in the intricate process of making a print, waiting as I try to decide exactly how intense the pink needs to be!

Excited to be delivering this print to a very special person today.

#archivalinkjet #LEOonpaper #printing #photography #joyofmaking #limitededition
Warning Signal II, 2023 Drawing on paper, charcoa Warning Signal II, 2023

Drawing on paper, charcoal and forester’s spray paint.

Exhibited @shatwellfarm June 2023. 

Synthetic neons have become a way of visualising human impact in nature, in my work.

The neon sprayed symbols on the trees in my local Somerset woods set me off on a series about all the generations of humans who have carefully controlled and managed the rural landscape. 

This city kid soon learned these are the foresters’ markings. A symbolic language that allows them to communicate what work needs to be done, which trees need felling and which to keep. 

This bark rubbing is a portrait of, and memorial to, a tree. I don’t know if it’ll be standing next time I walk that way.

#drawing #charcoal #spraypaint #memorial #embodiedpractice #somerset #forestry #landmanagement
WARNING: Test for Air - a field expedition at Shat WARNING: Test for Air - a field expedition at Shatwell Farm, June 2023.

On this grizzly rainy July day I’m revelling in @davewattsphoto’s wonderful shots of my performance @shatwellfarm a few weeks ago. 

Dave’s lens was here, there and everywhere - capturing multiple angles of the sensory walk and the procession with flags. 

What a joy to be able to replay the day through these images. I just want to do it all over again.

Thanks to everyone who came and made magic with us 💛💚🩷

Dramaturg: Mary Ann Hushlak 
Curator: @kendra.matchett 
Guides: @ashaylarge, Florence Caidan, @tylermooreheadlondon 
Flagpoles: @eventflaghire 

#embodiedpractice #somerset #landscape #performance #participation #fieldexpedition #walking #artofattention
The Signal and Her Guides. Atmospheric shots by @ The Signal and Her Guides.

Atmospheric shots by @davewattsphoto at the end of ‘WARNING: Test for Air’ - our performance / field expedition @shatwellfarm on June 17th. 

Dramaturg: Mary Ann Hushlak 
Curator: @kendra.matchett 
Guides: @ashaylarge, Florence Caidan, @tylermooreheadlondon

Warning signals / oracles / guides. Offering a moment of appreciation - drawing people’s attention to all that we have in front of us right now. 

Love our elevation on the @denmangould triangle seats, turned momentarily into plinths, emphasising our Grecian statue vibe of the day. 

Quite ‘Night at the Museum’, no? You never know when we’ll come alive.

A good one for the Capricorn Full Moon tonight 🌝

More to say about this very special performance, coming soon…

#embodiedpractice #performance #somatics #ritual #procession #warningsignal #landscape #climatechange

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