This series, motivated by a continuing interest in geology, is about restoration of abandoned mining and quarry industries.

I recently walked through a nature reserve, in the hills of the Mendips in SW. England, the ghost site of a post-industrial lead smelting mining operation, a toxic & historic relic of the industrial revolution.
These scarred, toxic landscapes—once defined by heavy extraction—are now slowly being overtaken by resilient native plant life. Through layered compositions, I explore how vegetation intervenes in these spaces, creating unexpected pockets of biodiversity and new ecological narratives. My work investigates this slow transformation, supportive of conservation over the contemporary fixation on innovation.

Using remnants of industrial ruin as both material and metaphor to reflect on cycles of damage, recovery, and the quiet force of rewilding, these paintings and other works serve as contemplations on how nature reclaims and redefines spaces and places once shaped by exploitation.