Carved cow bone, gold leaf and paint

Gold leaf, oyster, quartz crystal and acrylic

Gold leaf, ink, quartz crystal, paint

Photo: Nerys Jones

Silk, pen, watercolour, cottonballs and gold thread

Photo Nerys Jones

Lobster claw and gold leaf

Photo: Nerys Jones

Leather, silk thread and stuffing, poppies, lavender, fennel, roses, black pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, allspice and cloves

Guys hospital / The herb garret / Operating theatre>

This work exists as a triangle of metaphors to be considered objectively by the viewer.

Each measured mark has a symbolic gesture and sits in a tension of unison.

The hand crafted tender stitch line draws each ventricle bringing life within the tanned skin. The physical shape and form is held by the healing apothecary scents.

 The obsessive stitched line pierces and punctures wounding the tanned skin.

 The cocooned herbs dying, panicked and smothered in their flesh cell.