These drawings were made in collaboration with video artist Louisa Fairclough for an exhibition at the Danielle Arnaud Gallery in London in June 2004 called 'Nowhere Else but Here'.
The show looked at ideas about gardens,- not about the representation of places that actually exist but an investigation of the potential of gardens. It investigated the garden as a place of the imagination, a garden as a place that does not actually exist, an area of thought to explore ideas and whims and live out fantasies.
The drawings originated from video stills taken from an aerial 360 degree rotating view of a traditional English garden at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire.
The drawings are charcoal on Somerset Paper 59cm x 84cm and made from a process of layers - initially charcoal dust was ground into the paper describing the tonal structure found in images of the garden then a rubber used to form the top layer describing the movement and detail.
The final work layered the drawings with the stills that then became an animation once the images were played in sequence.