From hundreds of photographs taken whilst wandering the Sailors' Path between Snape Maltings and Aldeburgh, Suffolk, I have cut out over 600 elements and meticulously orchestrated them together to form a single scene recalling the landscape which informed so much of the music of Benjamin Britten though his ‘composing walks’. My process combined impressions and memories of this variegated landscape whilst original Decca recordings of Turn of the Screw (1955) and Peter Grimes (1958) played continuously.
This is one of two artist proofs printed by Mitsuhiro Matsudaira at Atelier Matsudaira in Tokyo on Japanese washi made by National Living Treasure Ichibei Iwano.
View of the Fujizuka at the Hatanomori Hachiman Shrine, Sendagaya, Tokyo
one of three artist proofs printed by Mitsuhiro Matsudaira at Atelier Matsudaira in Tokyo on Japanese washi made by National Living Treasure Ichibei Iwano.
continuing with Observations along the littoral at Aldeburgh Beach - the two above -both 1 hour observing the foreshore directly in front of the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, and the nearshore from the middle room in the Lookout - where for 30 years Laurens Van der Post would come to write.
Both are edition prints (3) and available from The Art House, Aldeburgh.
Observing the biodynamic horn manure preparation for West Peace field, 1 frame every 10 seconds for 57 minutes - during 'Continuum' - an Artist Residency to nurture the transformative role of the arts, founded by artists and ecologists Dr Flora Gathorne-Hardy and Dr Miche Fabre Lewin at their home-studio Timberyard Farm in Suffolk.
