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A story before an object
Before there is a lampshade, there is an image: a watchful face, a branch, a creature glimpsed at the edge of the trees. These are the starting points for the Wyrd Hills world. The invitation is to look a little longer, and to give an everyday object a story worth keeping.
The pagan influence here is a feeling of closeness to the living world: the turning year, the pull of a dark woodland, the quiet presence of an animal. It sits alongside folklore as a way of seeing, expressed through illustration and objects for the home.
From paper to lamplight
An illustration changes when it becomes part of an object. Light finds different colours; a curved surface reveals one part of a drawing and conceals another. The first concept studies explore that meeting between image and light.
The mock-ups on this site are early visual studies. Finished materials, proportions and photographs will follow as the collection develops.