Tussock Grass Wasteland

Watershed Settings, collection of memories for each setting.

Watershed

I don't belong here

In the rain

Drenched butterfly

Shelters in the gorse

Soft rush meadow 

Rain-shower passes

Busy insects

Leaving bracken scented air

Tussock grass wasteland

After the rain

Dark pools

Dripping bottomless

Debris clad birch

Weeping

Over idling water

Watershed Settings, A Meander on the River Porter

 Watershed Settings work for 'Catchment' an Exhibition at Gallery 35 Chapel Walk Sheffield                   

Stephen Moss speaks of the Edgelands

“All these places may appear very different from one another, yet they have one crucial thing in common: none of them were originally created as a home for wildlife.  Instead we designed and made them for our own needs and requirements.  But in doing so we took them out of the farmed countryside, thus inadvertently preventing them from being sprayed, mown and generally improved – an agricultural euphemism which for wildlife, ironically, means the very opposite of what it implies.  So, without ever meaning to we have created a huge chain of accidental nature reserves: unplanned and unintended yet vital for the survival of all sorts of wild creatures.”

My work is a celebration of nature’s power to fight back and a plea for these places to be left in peace.

Exhibition at South Square

Edgelands work in progress

   busy  constructing 3D pieces