what’s in a name?

I find writing difficult. Articulating words to describe what I’m doing does not come naturally to me. I feel mild panic when ever I’m asked to write a statement or research proposal. I know it is useful, it helps clarify what I’m doing in my creative practice. Often when I look at something I wrote months before, I am often impressed with how clear and communicative the outcome is, even though the process was so painful!

But I do love words, and I enjoy naming pieces or bodies of work

Viscous Meniscus Viscous : having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid. Meniscus : the curved upper surface of a liquid. These words together are so suggestive to me, I can visualise the sticky liquid enamel oozing through the mesh and solidifying in its own membranous surface.

Preternatural that which appears outside or beside the natural. It is "suspended between the mundane and the miraculous". I had no real plan as to what this work would look like. I prepared some ‘mesh vessel canvases’ and worked spontaneously with the Sugru (pigmented silicone). And I have to admit I was fascinated by the results, which appeared slightly alien and unexpected to me.

Verdure (the green colour of) fresh, healthy plants. Well I must admit I’m a sucker to words that still sound close to their Latin or French origins!

The Acid Test Firstly it was testing and researching, using the photo-etching process which etches metal away using acid. I feel the outcome and application was thorough and innovative; integrating digital and hand techniques and utilising industrial processes within craft-making. And I hoped it had ‘passed the acid test?”