I recently received the exciting news that I’ve been granted a Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) from Creative Scotland through High Life Highland. This is for me to explore further my on-going work into utilising plant-based developers and sustainable printing methods for my photography. I am hoping by the autumn I will have a body of prints that embody their subject – from Spey minerals to cowberry tones and vitamin C rich pine needles.
An important part of this work is also how I spend time within my environment, plant knowledge and foraging – there’s an ancestral link there somewhere, and I’m hoping it will connect me to those distant roots, an urge to be outside more than in, and the deep-earth connection I so often seek.
It’s really special to be afforded the means to explore this and give myself a strong focus of where I want my artwork to go. Nature and environmental responsibility are intrinsically linked to my creative urges and desires, and I can’t imagine they will ever stray far apart. This is a re-affirming project, and one that will draw me down new paths, I’m sure. Watch this space!
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