CHALK

The making of a landscape

Chalk is the ground beneath where I work — soft, porous, enduring. It filters the rivers, shapes landscape contours, and seems to hold ancient stories within it. In Wiltshire, chalk is not just substance but presence: it carries the ghost-lines of ancient roads, barrows, and hill figures, quietly embedded beneath the green.

During my time at No. 98 Fisherton Street, I will be making a collection of work in response to chalk— an exploration of what lies below, what fades, and what endures. I will draw from the physical and emotional texture of the Salisbury landscape: its light, its silence, its subterranean histories.

Many of the works began as field sketches or impressions gathered while walking in the chalk landscape familiar to me. Some pieces respond directly to the rhythm of the land — layered marks, erasures, traces. Others reflect moments of quiet contemplation and perhaps the materiality of the chalk itself.

Please do join me in the gallery to watch the work emerge over my residency there. On the final weekend, the resulting work will be on display. Please do pop in!

OPENING HOURS

Friday 6th June 10 – 2

Saturday 7th June 10 – 4

Sunday 8th June 10 – 4

Wednesday 11th June 10 – 2

Friday 13th June 10 – 2

Final weekend - Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June 10 – 4pm