01 about
Zoë has a Master’s in Creative Practice. The main body of her research and work is predominantly influenced by the landscape's environmental and ecological changes, particularly depicting Yorkshire rivers, springs, streams fosses and tributaries, exploring the mythological connections to these locations.
Her paintings are a symbolic representation of nature that captures an emotional response to the change in seasons through the use of the Pagan Wheel of the year as a responsive human-to-nature connection.
Her bold gestural mark-making can be seen within each chosen medium that she uses, from oils, acrylics, watercolours and charcoal.
Through her practice, she wishes to invoke a better understanding of nature, discovering our connection to the Earth while celebrating and honouring nature with respect for living and non-living.
Zoë explains that when you stroll along the river or hike to a hidden Tarn, you are surrounded by a living landscape, from the rocks and the earth beneath your feet to the wide-open canopy of an ancient tree that balances beside the river bank. We are part of nature, and nature is part of us.
Love Zoë x
‘I am the River the River is me’.
A Màori local saying for the Whanganui River,
in New Zealand.
A Maori saying.
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