about terry
My practice centres around Lyme Regis and the Jurassic coast in Dorset. Through my work I endeavour to depict the beauty and fragility of this environment, looking for ways to help people connect more deeply with the coastal landscape. My focus is the tension between the needs of people and the natural processes that shape the coastline. Handmade nets speak to the contradiction between our need to control the coastal environment and our essential interconnectedness with the natural world, linking back to the traditional skills and industries of this coast.
Walking sections of the SW Coast Path is my starting point, offering a way to experience the place in different seasons and weathers, observe changes, record details and note the passage of time. It is part of a mapping process: textures and marks observed in the landscape inform print and stitch. I find the geology and the associated coastal processes fascinating - these cliffs have become my colour palette. Local sandstones, chalk, Lias and Greensand range in colour from soft pink, ochre and white to grey-green and dark bluish-grey.
I collect and process these locally derived earth pigments and use them to colour cloth. They are a direct link to place and represent a surprisingly beautiful outcome given some of the bleaker starting points.
Walking sections of the SW Coast Path is my starting point, offering a way to experience the place in different seasons and weathers, observe changes, record details and note the passage of time. It is part of a mapping process: textures and marks observed in the landscape inform print and stitch. I find the geology and the associated coastal processes fascinating - these cliffs have become my colour palette. Local sandstones, chalk, Lias and Greensand range in colour from soft pink, ochre and white to grey-green and dark bluish-grey.
I collect and process these locally derived earth pigments and use them to colour cloth. They are a direct link to place and represent a surprisingly beautiful outcome given some of the bleaker starting points.