With a background in Earth Sciences and a husband with a life-long passion for rocks then Land and Rock form a large part of my artistic focus particularly in recent years.
Land
Cape Cornwall
Cape Cornwall
Rock Formations
“I know of no greater pleasure than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.”
-David Attenborough
“Ancient Oak and Rock, Bradgate Park, Leicestershire ”, Forms part of the Charnwood Forest Geopark. The rocks include the Ediacaran fauna Bradgatia and the oaks that were pollarded upon the execution of Lady Jane Gray.
“MOHO’ Double print etching of the Moho Discontinuity based on a roadside section in Oman and represents the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the deeper mantle.
“Stromatolites” plus wave ripple cross-lamination based on the Precambrian Bonahaven Dolomite Formation, Islay.
Malham Cove, Yorkshire is a limestone Amphitheatre formed originally be glacial meltwater and is overlain by a limestone “pavement”.
“Battleship Rocks” , from Eileach an Naoimh ( Holy island) , Inner Hebrides, Scotland. They are outcrops of Neoproterozoic glacial sediments from “Snowball Earth”
“Ediacaran , Fractofusis drawn from an impression in a rock from Newfoundland.