PATRICIA SHONE | WORK FOR BORROWED LAND EXHIBITION

My work has developed alongside my awareness of the landscape around me. It took a long time to really feel a deeper personal connection with the place, other than with its stark beauty. It happened for me by walking old paths across the hill behind the house, barely more than sheep tracks but always there was a specific destination to that track - a spring or a peat bed or a route to the outer hill grazing. I had a strong sense of following the footsteps of past inhabitants but at the same time obliterating their footprints with my own. I find this very moving. It helps me make sense of my own path across the landscape of my life.