This body of work is a tribute to the spirit of Water - its qualities of fluidity, power and memory and its uncanny ability as a medium to express human consciousness. Water-Verse is a culmination of a ten-year engagement with water, river clay and burnt plant material. The exhibition gathers together paintings, performances, and process-based works where water has been both medium and teacher. Combining natural pigments with water gives form to a substance which is mostly transparent and invisible. In my paintings water joins me to animate river clay, ash, soot and ochre and its character becomes traceable. What we might call ‘paint’ could be described as a combination of matter where water becomes a vehicle that gives form to my emotions, moods and thoughts and thus the formless takes form. Water participates in the making and then disappears as it evaporates leaving the pigment in place.

The exhibition tells a story of my evolving relationship with water. It unfolds in a loose chronology, mapping my dialogue with water and clay across time and place.