‘The emphasis is on multi-cultural ways of understanding and being in the landscape. Stonehenge was a multi-cultural landscape from the get go-Gathers, hunters, fisherman, farmers and pastoralists: people from the continent, people from the vicinity. The hunter gatherer culture that survives today often depicts what is known in the west as ’dreaming’s’, as a meditation on land and form.’ Professor David Jacques research and academic studies at the Buckingham University

As a Fine Artist I have been engaged in Installation, Temporal Work, Site Specific work, Gallery Exhibitions, Interventions, and Flux’s and Field work as Site Artist, Blick Mead, Stonehenge. When I was first invited to accept this role I began thinking about the interface between fine art and Archaeology. I made a field trip and with David Jacques Site Director and began to think about How the Stonehenge landscape supported different ways of life and senses of the sacred, such as animalism. Which embrace, myth, seeds, flowers, wind, sediments, enclosures, henges,’everything’.

I began by explore drawings, objects, small object paintings and prints which capture the descriptive and fetish like quality that each of the extraordinary artefacts from the Mesolithic possess.

I wanted to find my own voice as a fine artist and figure out what I as an artist could bring to archaeology as much as ,what the archaeological context could bring to me. This was partly to find an alternative language to Victorian Illustration which felt clinical and functional. I didn’t want to diminish the object and imagination, of the viewer, to lines on a page.

The experience of holding a Mesolithic tool felt so physical. The sculptural quality of tools created at that time felt far more extraordinary than uniform drawings.

They have a magic and a wonder presence which is dark and slightly foreboding. The Victorian Illustrations felt reductive and rational to me. The real live objects become living when touched. The stone that permanently changes colour to magenta pink would have been a signifier of natural or spiritual forces and strengthened my resolve to somehow cut a new path as site artist.