onederland

What started as an adventure into natural dye making has given birth to many new ideas. I feel an urge to make art now which involves no chemicals. It’s not as easy as I thought, but it’s making me so much more aware of my own blindness to what’s natural and what isn’t. Writing this at a time when yet more GM practices are being given the go-ahead (I recently read that our King who advocated organic in past years gave the government his royal ascent to the Precision Breeding Act in March 2023), I think it’s extremely important we realise that we are a part of nature; nature provides everything for us. If we mess with nature in this way we, and all of nature, could forevermore be at the mercy of man’s whim.

I intend to bring more pieces into this collection, it’s my current main project. Some  work in other galleries in my portfolio will sit in here nicely, I realise on reflection. They’re about the interconnectedness of all things; one-ness, non-duality. The home grown dye colours celebrate the bounty and generosity of natural, free, unpatentable mother nature. The project began with a play on the Ishihara colour blindness tests.