Essence of Purbeck Series
The Essence of Purbeck series emerges through sustained engagement with the geology, coastline, and material history of the Isle of Purbeck. Shaped by erosion, compression, fracture, and sedimentation, the landscape reveals form as a record of time and elemental force. The sculptures draw from these conditions, carrying the physical language of weathered stone, shifting contours, exposed strata, and hollowed space.
The work examines the relationship between structure and erosion, mass and opening, tension and release. Forms swell, split, fold, and recede, reflecting the slow movements through which the landscape continually reshapes itself. Fossils, shells, cliff formations, and coastal voids inform the sculptural vocabulary, grounding each piece within processes of growth, pressure, and transformation.
Negative space functions as an active element within the work. Openings allow light, shadow, and surrounding atmosphere to enter the form, extending the dialogue between material presence and spatial perception. The sculptures hold the rhythms of the coastline within their surfaces and contours, tracing the persistent interaction between land, sea, weather, and time.
Purbeck Form One
Purbeck Form Two
Purbeck Form Three
Purbeck Form Four
Purbeck Form Five
Purbeck Form Six
Purbeck Form Seven
Purbeck Form Eight
Purbeck Form Nine
