After its first installation in the magnificent North Transept of St Albans Cathedral during May 2025, our (XAP’s) Watershed project will be on tour next year, to bring attention, and urgent action, to the UK’s long-suffering chalk streams.

My work in Ancient Woodland has increasingly been absorbing my time, in particular Queen’s Wood in north London.  These fragments of beautiful and fragile ecosystems have evolved, with varying human interventions, over centuries, possibly thousands of years. They find themselves under pressure from all directions - marooned by urban development, loved to death during Covid lockdowns, and now having to respond to the floods and droughts of climate change.  Alongside my hands-on conservation work, I’m exploring, as an artist, the tensions of ancient woodland, as being both ‘natural’ and human made.