With Red Earth Under My Nails

I chose to use the funding by Arts Council England and Thelma Hulbert Gallery to develop a response to a poem Jeremy Hooker wrote in 2015. He took as a starting point a specific painting of mine, but his words touched into the fundamentals of my practice. WITH RED EARTH UNDER MY NAILS is the third from The Viriditas Press imprint. Jeremy’s poem is included as is my response to his insights- I offer 18 reasons why I like to have earth under my nails…