72 Groundlines drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints have been found. They were made over a few months, each one created in a different place on Abbey Home Farm, ‘mapping’ the fields through walking, pausing to draw, slowly getting to know the land, it stories, its visible and hidden layers. I spent time amongst the labelled tins of flint in the barn, walked the tracks and fields of the farm, and camped there at night. I was able to lose myself for hours wandering from field to field, musing over the various field names from Dancy’s Fancy and Happy Lands, to Barn Sisters and Hitchens Knowle. There are old ways that pass through and alongside the farm, with long standing connections to people and places further afield. This work was part of Field Walking, an exhibition connecting art and archaeology at the Corinium Museum Cirencester, with flints found by the farmer at Abbey Home Farm alongside creative responses by four artists.

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