A Deeper Land

A Deeper Land (Substrata)

Oil on canvas, 25cm x 30cm (2018)


Untitled (Lost Ground)

Oil on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)


Landscape With Ruin (IV)

Oil on canvas, 25cm x 30cm (2018)


Untitled (Dug Out)

Oil on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)

Untitled (Lost Ground II)

Oil on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)

Untitled (Fragment II)

Oil, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)

Landscape (With Pressure and Time)

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)


Landscape (With Pressure and Time II)

Oil, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 20cm x 25cm (2018)

Untitled (Flora Subterranea)

Oil, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 25cm x 20cm (2018)

A Deeper Land


is a continuing series of paintings that evoke a disappearing or vanished world. Based on dioramas constructed from cement, discarded material and torn scraps of corrugated cardboard, these works explore the ruin as trope in the Romantic tradition of landscape art. The use of waste and building materials are here used to further develop the metaphor of impermanence, of atrophy and collapse, and to engage with current discourses of the Anthropocene.


A Deeper Land reveals the intersection of human with natural history, with time measured in years versus that in millennia, portrayed through signs of decay and collapse, of disuse and abandonment, or of the glacially slow accumulation of sedimentary stratification, where the evidence for one is found in the other. By digging down and excavating the layers deposited by time, by sifting the dirt for fragments and traces, we are able to travel back; time is compressed, and temporal divisions collapse.