What are the Roots that Clutch hypha-marble-arch Paradise Lost III’ (from the

Paradise Lost III’ (from the series ‘Our Dark Materials’) has emerged from a deeply felt

and blacks

focussing on a fragment from a familiar landscape

unprimed canvas marks their absence

Inspired by 17th century tapestries

What are the Roots that Clutch hypha-marble-arch Paradise Lost III’ (from theWhat are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? From The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. I found this discarded canvas already in a dull and cracked grey paint which reminded me of pavement, of smog and of decay. Tree stumps are headless figures; embodiments of disruption. They are relics of ruin but also places of protection. Their liminal remains become sculptural sites of regeneration. My work explores uncertainty and