Experimental screen print on silk

Acid and procion dye formula

99 x 131cm | 39 x 52in

Ivy is wild. She is a wild spirit in nature, she grows wherever growth is needed, she knows no boundaries, she is fierce, she facilitates rehabilitation in nature and she grows together with other plants and species. Her growth is so determined and strong that she resembles the essence of fidelity and ever-lasting locality. 

Ivy represents this abstract idea of strength, change and movement through her manifested form as a plant. I find Ivy to be a teacher, a shower of the all inclusive being, a spirit unafraid of her innate natural sense of self.

To me this piece was an experiment of working with manifested forms and Ivy appeared, it was spontaneous and unrealised until her form came into the work. To me that represents the nature of Ivy, we all have this essence of ivy within us but she’s waiting to be realised and called in.