Fal River Festival - Artist Residency: Plotting the Boundaries of                                                                        Nature.

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In my current professional practice, I am exploring the idea of boundaries, with particular focus on both physical and mental limits. Expressing myself through my work has revealed the importance to know your personal boundaries; so that you can not only protect yourself, but also to push yourself beyond those limits to develop yourself as an individual..

In the past, my work has had a specifically architectural feel to it and so when I was asked to work on this residency I was intrigued to see where my ideas would progress and how..

Initially my plan for the Fal River Residency was to take the walk from Trelissick to the King Harry Ferry (which was familiar to my family and I) and to be open to any new ideas. Immediately I found myself intrigued by tide and the boundaries of nature that hold a landscape together. For example, the walls and woodland banks which hold the water in, and thus preventing flooding (to a certain degree). Each day I have recorded the composition of the water, the build up of lichen on the walls, weathering marks on the walls and also looking at the direction of the ripples in the water and where calm areas form..

Each drawing has been composed through closely studying the natural boundaries as they change during the day and through trusting myself to plot the detail, without looking at the paper.

Although I have been a little apprehensive with the overall sporadic appearance of the drawings, I have allowed the images and my confidence to strengthen.

I continue to justify that ‘Less is More’. For me, it really is essential to understand the basic form and composition (or in this case - the boundaries) of a landscape before you can learn to appreciate the secondary elements, such as detail, texture and colour.

                                                                                                                   C Williams