It has been the most unbelievable privilege to be 2025 Artist in Residence at National Trust Avebury. Season by season I explored the landscape close to Avebury and owned by the National Trust. I recorded on ceramic pots my spontaneous response to each walk. The year culminated in “Walking the Landscape”, an exhibition of the narrative pots staged in the threshing barn.
Walking the Landscape
The winter of 2024/25 was wet, the lower-lying land full of water from the Kennet and the many springs.
Past Silbury Hill, surrounded by a wide winter ditch of water, and over the A4 the predominance of water continue. Up the hill to West Kennet long barrow the chatter of starlings was gradually replaced by the call of the skylarks.