This exhibition is an ongoing project exploring a Buddhist mindful, meditative approach to not knowing; being in the moment and responding to place using painting and sketching.

In Buddhism, I understand the main purpose of mindful meditation to be to awaken to how the world is and to learn to live in harmony with it – a world of impermanence, interdependence and conditionality. This enquiry, using a slow, meditative listening, feeling and sensing approach, involves training your curiosity, accepting and letting go of

interpretations and attachments until you are so completely okay with not knowing what is happening that you welcome it. 

This quality of presence, simply being with whatever is emerging in the moment, reveals the land seen afresh; dark, intense and chaotic yet light, spacious, free flowing and spontaneous whilst also ultimately un-nameable and un-knowable. The middle path

that wanders through it; full of wonder, awe and mystery. 

England is part of an island of fertile land almost entirely compose of managed spaces, including those I am visiting here in Devon; Dartmoor, a local farm, community and home gardens and allotments.

This is a slow enquiry into the mysterious and ephemeral forces; the pulse,

flow, atmosphere and moods of the most mundane aspects of place. 

Birdwood House gallery, High St, Totnes TQ9 5DR

27.9 - 3.10.26

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Sunday 10am - 4pm

Mon - Friday 10am - 5pm

Saturday 10am - 4pm