Trochiad

This ongoing body of work explores Llyn Idwal, a mountain lake within the Glyderau range of Eryri (Snowdonia). Unlike the coastal environments that frequently inform my practice, the lake lies within a protected nature reserve where swimming is not permitted. The work therefore emerges from an absence: a body of water that can be observed, but not entered.

My relationship with landscape has been shaped by years of swimming in the sea. Immersion offers a distinctive way of experiencing place, altering perspective through shifting horizons, movement, and light. Water transforms not only what is seen, but how it is seen.

Approaching Llyn Idwal from the shoreline, I became interested in how these experiences continued to shape my understanding of the lake. Through photography and print, the work explores the relationship between land and water, observation and memory, and the ways in which embodied experience influences our reading of landscape.

Prints are in development, three are currently on show in the Bathing Places exhibition @37 Looe St, Plymouth.