I have been getting up close to mud and matter and thinking about the makeup of the environment around us.
It’s hard to look at a cup say and imagine the structure of its atoms. To think about the solid and then the squishy and how it all works.
From thinking about the origins of things, like the first plants and forests. Evolution and yet how all matter existed from the beginning and it’s just a huge process of recycling.
Deptford creek
A great place for a new perspective on your surroundings is the Deptford Creekside Centre where you can join a low tide walk.
Low Tide Walk
Equipped with thigh length waders and a long stick you are led down to the creek and given lots of insight into the history and wildlife of the creek.
Deptford Creek Crab
It is stunningly beautiful and feels a real privilege to enter this world below the horizon.
Deptford Creek
The river has carved intricate sculptures into the wooden posts along the banks.
Deptford Creek
The look posts look totemic and hung with vibrant algae quite primordial.
Deptford Creek
The creek bed is thick with mud and slime creating wonderful patterns as the water recedes.
Deptford Creek
There is the possibility of finding treasure swept along and revealed after each tide but you must ask if you want to take anything away. They have quite a collection of finds they like to add to at the discovery centre.
Deptford Creek
On a previous trip artist Lizzie Cannon had been lucky to find a wonderful rusty object which she has since embroidered with threads and beads to continue the growth of the rust giving the object a new organic dimension
Lizzie Cannon – Corrosion
A Matter of Substance exhibition and salon curated by Caroline Lambard and Elizabeth Murton at APT Gallery encouraged their audience to look beyond the surface of the material to the very structure of the crystals, atoms and particles that form them.
Catherine Jacobs beautiful photographs show tensions of surface sometimes broken by an indeterminate object that works as a disruption to the surface and our perceptions of what we are looking at.
Catherine Jacobs Uncertainties
Elizabeth Murton’s scroll flows out across the floor in symbiosis with the marks upon it like a cascade of data presenting itself as a record of the inks journey.
Elizabeth Murton
Cool work for a hot day.
Phillip Hall-Patch / Caroline Lambard
There were salt crystals that sparkled like snow in magnified form like Icelandic landscapes and in salt block form eroded by a constant drip of water.
Phillip Hall-Patch Salt LIcks
Caroline Lambard’s ethereal sculptures help to imagine 3D form from all perspectives through their delicate drawing in thread to delineate a space.
Caroline Lambard
I have started on a new piece of work, the idea of an oasis, an escape, a view through to another place so it has been interesting to think about form and space.
A solid outer that hides a world inside.
It starts with the construction of a collagraph which I am slowly building up from cut card and carborundum.
Once made the idea will be to rip a section out to reveal an internal space.
Susan Eyre 