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Experimenting with onion skin dyed thread and rape seeds sown onto an ivy leaf.

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I experimented with lots of different types of leaf and ivy was one of the best, being strong and flexible. I used this as a base for one of my final pieces.

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White leaf with twisted hazel and raffia.

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Ivy, Cooper beach and smoke bush trails.

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"Nest" made with rice and rose petals, feathers, onion skins, bark, hair, wax, beech leaves.                               

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I was trying to replicate a birds nest using found "outside" materials in the same way a bird would.

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Another go at making a nest type structure, simpler but with less detail.

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Dried tulip leaves around bark set with bees wax.

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Creating an "outside" with bark, already an outside to wood as a container, which became to inspiration for my final piece.

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A woven structure using vine, old mans beard, dried tulip leaves, wisteria and weed.

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Thinking about creating a structure that may represent a cocoon or a yellow weavers nest.

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Felt using cat hair, egg shells, garlic and onion skin.

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Creating a surface that might resemble the inside of a nest or cocoon.

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Dying raffia and silk thread with onion skins, beetroot and turmeric.

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Dyed raffia, grasses and fresh and dried daffodil leaves.

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After some feed back from our group tutorial I began thinking again about ombre and different structures and colours.

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Plaited when fresh, very malleable.

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Using rice glue to stick leaves onto a base of rice glue and crushed leaves

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My chosen piece of art work, a series of over 200 books made from lead. Being so heavy it is impossible for one man to lift or open them. An outside where the inside is again inaccessible.

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After beginning this project I began to see the outside with a new perspective. Looking at the world around me to explore all the possibilities of how it could be manipulated to create different forms and structures.

Every leaf was stitched, pressed, glued.

Every feather, stick or trail of vine collected.

Vegetables and flowers boiled to make dyes.

Every walk I came back with new treasures , filling my pockets with potential structures.

Some explorations were less successful than others. Some leaves were too fragile, or tough. I struggled to make the rice glue strong enough initially until I added red clay.

It was a journey of "what if's" and a fun one, with many surprises on the way.

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These cotton pockets were given to patients of Halasa in Jerusalem to put their belongings in before surgery.

I like the idea that there is an outside, a container that we know holds personal items, but we cannot see them.

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Made from bees wax, wasp venom, walnut wood and hand blown glass.

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An exploration into stitching leaves taken from a book of the same name.

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Ten quick drawings in charcoal of an old woven basket.

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Exploring the shape and form form different angles.

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Using a view finder to to select points of interest.

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Seven individual works each made from found natural materials.

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A video showing the details of each piece.

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Artists statement

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Exact list of materials used and measurements.

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The gentle translucency and delicate nature appealed to me in this work, and the repletion of similar objects was something I took forward to my final piece.