Sacred Thresholds

The Sacred Thresholds collection explores the liminal places where one world gives way to another - the edge of the moor where cultivated land ends and wild ground begins, the shoreline where sea meets stone, the threshold between what we can see and what we can only sense.

These paintings draw on the ancient sacred sites scattered across the Cornish landscape: standing stones, barrows and hilltop enclosures that have marked significant transitions for thousands of years.

Each piece contains earth pigments gathered from these threshold sites, giving the works a material connection to the very ground they depict. The result is paintings that feel both elemental and contemplative - art for spaces where you want to be reminded that you are standing at the edge of something extraordinary.

Across the collection, sharp dividing lines act as thresholds: edges between dark and light, presence and absence, enclosure and openness. Traces of Leskernick Gold pigment appear as quiet activations within these spaces, echoing standing stones, markers or sacred points within the landscape. Together, the works invite a slower kind of looking and a deeper sense of connection to place.