I’m interested in the idea of glaciers sculpting the land, carving their way through valleys, the debris they leave behind them. The limestone at The Hushings was left by a glacier that had slithered, (meandered?) its way down from N. Yorkshire.

Glaciers are so immense, so beautiful and and carry that mix of creative/destructive  inherent with all forces of nature and natural processes.

I would like to explore possibilities with ice, and think that as winter sets in , the potential for working with freezing water will become more real. For now though , I am looking at casting sections of the rocks in different materials- ice, jelly perhaps, plaster, resin- glass would be good.

I have pressed small lumps of Baildon Moor clay into the cracks and crevices that have been created between rocks, the splits and fissures that mark all these beautiful rocks, formed by water collecting, freezing, expanding, driving sections of rock apart.Others are bigger in size than this- but just to give an idea:

These lumps are waiting to be fired – I may then create a 3D mould to enable liquid casting – resin or ice? These final casts will be a shrunken versions of their formerselves,as the firing process shrinks the clay,  but that may be an interesting development?