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Anne Davison

Anne Davison originally studied Printed Textiles BA(Hons) at Middlesex University, graduating in 1984 and established a fashion textile design brand in Shoreditch in 1985, selling worldwide to the fashion industry in the UK, Japan, France, Germany and the USA. Amongst others, previous clients have included Yves Saint Laurent, Mantero, Etro, Daniel Hechter, Tommy Hilfiger, Macy’s and Diane von Furstenberg.

Anne now works from her studio on the Thames, having shifted her focus to producing original artworks and home furnishings, selling to retailers, interior designers as well as TV and film.

Anne Davison limited-edition prints, collages and rugs are designed and created in her bright sunny studio in Woolwich, Southeast London. Inspired and influenced by artists such as Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham, Eduardo Chillida, Ben Nicholson and Alexander Girard, Anne is predominantly interested in abstract shapes colour and pattern. Each new piece begins with creating a range of stencilled, lino printed and screen-printed papers, I enjoy experimenting with different techniques, colour combinations and the freedom this stage gives me. From here, Anne moves to development – using paper collage to explore proportion, pattern, and to the final composition.

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Paintings
Prints
Textiles & Rugs

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Media
Paint on Paper
Prints
Textiles & Rugs

Subject:

Abstract
Landscapes
Still Life

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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

Carl Rowe

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Hetty Haxworth

Oxford born, Hetty Haxworth studied at the Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Hetty Haxworth draws her inspiration from the ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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Prints
Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Board
Prints – Artist
Painting Reliefs

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscapes

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Hetty Haxworth - Light Falling through the Window

Hetty Haxworth - Sheer Drop and Massive Slabs

Hetty Haxworth - Ink Black Trees under Drifting Clouds

Hetty Haxworth - Heavy Dew on the Meadows

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The ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape is the inspiration for my work. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

Hetty Haxworth

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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger is widely credited with being one of the first Aerosol Writers/Urban Artists to emerge from the UK, serving as an influence to some of today’s top UK Urban Artists. Over the years, he has evolved professionally to have clients which include the BBC, Channel 4, EA Games, LucasFilm (Star Wars), MTV, The South Bank Show, as well as a well-known breakfast cereal.

On the community arts side of his portfolio, he has a strong background in both organising and facilitating a variety of creative mural projects and workshops. Working mainly in inner cities with disadvantaged youth and other young people (through children’s arts charities such as SP8 Of The Art).

He has also been involved in projects in the US, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, as well as all over the UK. One of his projects on the now fallen Aylesbury Estate in SE London, even won an award from the late Princess of Wales.

Employing an eclectic palette of media, ranging from spray-paint and acrylics to pastels and graphics tablets, he takes the inspiration for his paintings from the intrinsic beauty of nature, as well as a vast range of musical styles, urban and pop culture influences. Along with this, he describes his work as being a combination of ‘liquid light’ and ‘visual music’.

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Paintings
Prints – Artist
Digital
Wall Panels
Other – Murals

Mediums:

Digital
Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas & Paper
Photomontage
Spray paint Graffiti
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors
Music
Portrait/Figurative

Artful Dodger - Bride of Frankenstein - Canvas

Artful Dodger - New-X Workshop - Digital Print

Artful Dodger - New-X Development - Digital Print

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Jacqueline Real

Jacqueline Real was born in Zurich and studied in Switzerland and Austria.

“To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping – seeing the light and being overwhelmed.”

Jacqueline Real’s pictures unearth landscapes and nature buried deep in the unconscious. Above all, it is the colours which, in their harmonious composition and their precise contrasts result in a subliminal experience.

She has had many Solo and Group Exhibitions in Switzerland, England, Germany and USA. Jacqueline is a member of Visarte, Switzerland and Fellow of Free Painters and Sculptors, London.

Jaqueline Real has work in many private and public collections including Risk Publications, UBS, CS, Tokio Bank, British Government, Crown Court Truro, Marc Rich, Johnson & Johnson, Strutt & Parker, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, SmithKline Beecham, Holiday Inn Express etc….etc

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Collage
Painting on Canvas & Paper
Paper/Paper Pulp
Prints – Artist

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping - seeing the light and being overwhelmed.

Jacqueline Real

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David Dodsworth

David Dodsworth is a well established artist. The most common question he is asked is; “what kind of thing do you do”? The answer is always a different, generally reflecting the most recent works that he has been involved with.

In previous work he has looked closely at the imagery of prehistory, and calligraphy in many different language systems, using paint and print.

A commission for a series of glass bowls and sculptures being made in Los Angeles took his work in a totally new direction.

David Dodsworth has a wide range of interests and many of the pieces are derived from nature, architecture, and geometric composition. However, some things; his love of music, and its resonance for instance, is best expressed abstractly.

His approach is best described as eclectic (n) one who uses a method or approach that is composed of elements drawn from various sources or (in art) selecting what seems best from various styles, doctrines, ideas, methods, etc.

At the moment he is looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure, reveal, or degenerate a figurative image, combined with layers of consciousness.

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Paintings
Prints

Other Categories:

Glass – Sculptural Bowls

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Panels
Paintings on Paper
Prints – Artist Limited Editions

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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At the moment I am looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure reveal or degenerate a figurative image combined with layers of consciousness.

David Dodsworth

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Susan Andreae

Susan Andreae is a sculptor and printmaker based in London.

Having grown up in London, she is fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

She also travels frequently to Southern Italy and is inspired by the simplicity of the ancient architecture and colours of the Mediterranean.

Ideas evolve for Susan Andreae from things she sees and experiences and always from drawings made in situ, which start the creative process. She then experiments with techniques of layering using multiple images superimposed to arrive at a final image, eluding to the passing of time and historical change.

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Prints
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Prints – Artist-Etchings
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Concrete/Plaster/Ceramic

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Urban

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

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Irma Irsara

Irma Irsara has a special interest in ecology, conservation and climate change. These have always guided her creative practice. She was brought up in the foothills of Monte Croce in the Italian Dolomites. Where her paternal grandfather managed significant areas of woodland in Fanes National Park. This has always influenced he artwork.

Irma studied at the Scuola d’Arte di Ortisei & Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, both in Italy, and St Martins School of Art. She also studied Country Care and Conservation at Capel Manor Horticultural College to develop her knowledge of Conservation.

Her work encompasses a broad range of media and techniques: installations, video, bookworks,

photography, prints and the pulp/cotton fibre works which represent a large part of her output.

Her fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms. For example, her series ‘Watermarks’ explored rising water levels as evidenced in the lines on canal walls.

Irma Irsara has shifted her focus to invisible nature, micro pollution and micro fibre plastics. Through the use of micro-photography, film and time lapse she has created a new range of artworks.

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Prints
Photography
Digital
Installations
Other – Paper Pulp Artworks

Mediums:

Digital
Installation
Light
Paper/Paper Pulp

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape

Irma Irsara - Rugiada nel giardino delle delizie

Irma Irsara - Il gelo e la fessura-triptich

Irma Irsara - Il colore e di chi lo sa canzonare

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My fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms.

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Michelle House

Michelle House is an abstract artist with over 20 year’s experience creating unique textile artworks and digital art prints. Her inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House moved from painting and collage on paper to applying the same approach with textiles. Taking photographs and making drawings, she then edits and designs on a computer, before transferring her photographic images to silkscreens.

Michelle uses screens in conjunction with hand-cut stencils as a palette from which to select and build up her final composition. Using imagery and colour in an abstract way to create focal points, balance and space.

The dye’s and pigments, in combinations of transparent and opaque layers, are screen-printed and painted on to differently textured fabrics, which are then meticulously sewn together to make a single piece, or series of related works.

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Wall Panels
Textiles & Rugs

Textile Type:

Textiles
Wall Hangings
Rugs

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors

Michelle House - Crafted City - Orange & Pink

Michelle House - Chevron Looking up Reeds

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My inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

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Mark Godwin

The motif of Landscape has been a major part of the work of Mark Godwin for over 30 years. He has been greatly influenced by the 18th century Romantic notion of the Sublime, and our longing for an emotional encounter with nature.

These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for his sensation before nature. They are paintings about the poetic idea of landscape. There is a nostalgia, and timelessness about his work, and a conscious blurring of the boundaries between abstraction, and representation. They are landscape of the imagination. They are paintings about feelings.

Mark Godwin began his artist training at Stourbridge College of Art and progressed on to Central School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Cite Internationale des Artistes in Paris. Following his training Mark went onto work as a copperplate printer for Palm Tree Editions, Albion Editions and London Contemporary Art.

Since then Mark has set up his own studio to develop his practice concentrating on painting and printing. He has exhibited extensively and his work has been included in many collections both private and corporate.

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Painitngs on Canvas
Paintings on Paper
Screen Prints
Etchings

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Cityscape
Seascape

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These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for my sensation before nature.

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Helen Lack

Helen Lack is a contemporary artist working in the UK and producing large format and statement art. She has a unique style which is energetic, individual and vibrant with an urban edge.

Her work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement. This has created a significant level of interest among galleries and collectors. As well as a healthy demand by companies requiring “office art”.

Helen paints by combining many layers and thick brushstrokes using mixed media and drip techniques. She conveys emotion in all her works, which is received by the viewer as intriguing and involving.

Her works are inspired by current events and environmental concerns. Her paintings showing passion and vibrancy as well as reflection and colour to her audience.

Helen Lack has displayed her collections in contemporary shows, collaborated with other artists and curated her own solo exhibitions. All have attracted media interest in the UK and Europe and have received much acclaim.

Her works have been exhibited in many prestigious galleries in London and New York, creating a truly international appeal. In addition, one prestigious gallery has asked for her works in Italy for very high-profile collectors.

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Paintings
Prints
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Media
Large Statement Paintings on Canvas, Panels and Paper
Prints – Artist and Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Interiors
Landscape
Portrait/Figurative
Seascape/Water

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My work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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Charlotte Cornish

Charlotte Cornish is a well established artist producing prints and paintings. The dominant theme of her work is the nature of human experience. Creating tensions and harmonies through the use of colour and form.

Much of the initial inspiration for Charlotte’s work comes from places she has visited and have significance to her. Often using photographs as a starting point, and as the compositions develop, combining elements taken from the photographs with imagery drawn from personal experience. Charlotte is fascinated by the possibilities of colour and colour relationships and the infinite potential they have to create dynamic connections and reactions.

Charlotte Cornish uses acrylic paint for her paintings as it dries relatively quickly. I like to build up numerous layers of poured paint in thin veils, which contrast with more thickly applied paint, creating a raised surface on the canvas. Waiting until the paintings are dry before applying each subsequent new mark allows her the opportunity to remove or modify painted areas, without affecting the preceding layers. I work with the canvases flat on the floor for much of the time. The paintings take at least eight weeks to complete.

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Other Artwork Types:

Monotype Printing Techniques with Acrylic on Paper

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Prints – Artist-Screen Prints
Prints – Artist-Mono-prints

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Much of the initial inspiration for my work comes from places I have visited and have significance to me.

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Jo Gorner

University, Jo was taught printmaking by Jean Lodge, who studied with S W Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris and who was inspirational in her rigorous approach and experimentation. Jo went on to complete an MA in print at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Printmaking is central to Jo’s practice, though it does not dominate the narrative or dictate the expression. The relief and etching techniques Jo Gorner uses allow space and time to consider an image facilitating the passage from thought to paper.

The quality of the marks Jo achieves, the presence of the hand and incidence of chance, are all integral to her work.

The restorative value of the creative process and the impact of the natural landscape both underpin Jo’s practice. The artwork which results is a sensory, embodied, response to this immersion in the natural environment and her relational encounter with a landscape.

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Prints

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Prints – Artist
Etchings

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Geographical

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 Familiar Land,: Northern Print, Newcastle
2014 Fields of Vision: Land Art Project, Pennines
2012 Littoral : Flowers Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Works on Paper: Campden Gallery
2013 – 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 New Light Exhibition: Bowes Museum, Bankside Gallery, London, etc
2017 The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery
2013 Print International, touring, Oriel Wrecsam

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The restorative value of the creative process and the impact of the natural landscape both underpin my practice.

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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The ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape is the inspiration for my work. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping - seeing the light and being overwhelmed.

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At the moment I am looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure reveal or degenerate a figurative image combined with layers of consciousness.

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

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My fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms.

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My inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

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These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for my sensation before nature.

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My work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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Much of the initial inspiration for my work comes from places I have visited and have significance to me.

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The restorative value of the creative process and the impact of the natural landscape both underpin my practice.

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