Word library

Endlessly fascinating and often a starting point for my research and an end point as painting titles. I collect words and phrases in my notebooks.

Themes, Theories & Research

Landscape, liminal, repeated experience, layers, history, archeology, traces, ground, inhabitiveness, connectedness, othering, isolation, endlessness, shelterless, settlement, occupation, disturbances, exhumation, discards, tracks, detritus

Land Language

Selion, rudge, headland, plough, furrow, screed, thurrow, innage, flatland, sad land, windrow, yield, mot, lode, screed, slub, strata, disinter, ringe, unearth,

Local Language

Decoy, snake hall, kings hall, swampings, fen, gool, mizzle, glut, aud (old), agaitsward (towards home),

Reading list:

The Book of Human Emotions, Tiffany Watt Smith

Landmarks, Robert McFarlane

Fenland Landscape Glossary for Lincolnshire, Hilary Healey

All of the internet!