Category: Nottingham Castle collection project

I am creating a small series of lino prints related to the Nottingham Castle collection brief. I would like the prints to be a continuation of the pieces that I have made, so the above print is a view of the trees that hang over the castle gift shop. I am also in the process…

Here is a completed ‘komorebi’ painting where I aimed to express the feeling of tranquility of the light filtered through trees. I think that the linework was somewhat successful in bringing a sense of movement to the piece, though it does feel over-composed in some areas. With the colours, I wanted to convey the freshness…

This video shows part of the process of soldering the reliquary. The lead-free solder that I used melts at 400 degrees, so caution was needed when handling the soldering iron. I needed to use a heatproof surface to prevent fires, and PPE to avoid any burns from stray solder. I also wore a mask and…

I started out with the idea of making a fused glass dome, which I found was not possible, however it meant I still had the wax dome form that I had made as part of that process. This came in useful in designing the stained glass version of the dome. I started out thinking about…

 10:05am, Colour on Korean paper, 2024 Park Yunji is an artist based on Seoul, South Korea. She explores ephemerality in her practice, and while reading online I discovered her series of works depicting the shadows of trees. They immediately resonated with me because they reminded me of the cyanotype images I had been making using…

Komorebi is a Japanese term meaning ‘sunlight leaking through trees’. It can refer to the feeling of beauty and tranquility of walking through a forest. I have been testing out ways of visually depicting the feeling.  I tried manipulating some photos I took to see the different visual effects and which ones most successfully evoked…

Inspired by the depictions of stained glass in the Early Nottingham Craft Gallery at Nottingham Castle, as well as the Blasted Tree painting, I wanted to refer to the idea of light being a representation of the divine. There is the idea of the divine within nature as well as a visual connection between light…

Majesty, 2006 Tacita Dean describes her process as ‘finding a thread and following it’. She started by taking old postcards and painting out the backgrounds to emphasise the trees, which inspired her to create a series of larger photographs of the oldest trees in Britain. Majesty is one of those works- a photographic print on three…

Following on from the theme of ‘nature as religion’, I was interested in the way that objects are handled in religious contexts as containers of the divine, and I wanted to gather some natural objects and elevate them in a similar way. I chose to use an acorn because of its connection with the Major…