I apologise for having neglected this blog. In part this has been because I’ve needed to focus on dealing with family health issues for the last eight or nine weeks. But also because I’ve been taken up with writing an article reviewing and reflecting on, the collaborative exhibition that’s the outcome of Sara Dudman’s extensive Lay of the Land project.

The exhibition presented Sara’s new earth-pigment paintings, works that have arisen from a series events focused by ‘nomadic-sporadic’ walks in the Cotswolds undertaken with people from a local walking group and, on one occasion, celebrated with and by a locally-based Morris side. All of whom have assisted Sara by helping her collect the samples of earth and stone she uses to make her pigments. All the walks were undertaken in an ancient Cotswolds Land Circle, linking the project to the deep past.

The exhibition has been housed in the listed barn that is the Little Buckland Gallery, set down in the countryside of the Cotswolds, and has been curated, in the fullest possible sense, by Arabella Kiszely, herself an artist. My illustrated article will be published in Northern Earth, either later this year or early next. There are plans to re-stage the exhibition, which currently ends tomorrow, elsewhere next year. If you live in the South West of England, look out for it.