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Vanessa Claridge

Fallow | Pause | Bloom

2 Herons Crossing

From A Former Life

Tread Collective

Salt Lines: Winter Marsh Walk

Artist Statement

Creative Facilitator

Contemporary Artist & Ecological Practitioner

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Vanessa Claridge

Fallow | Pause | Bloom

2 Herons Crossing

From A Former Life

Tread Collective

Salt Lines: Winter Marsh Walk

Artist Statement

Creative Facilitator

Contemporary Artist & Ecological Practitioner

Professional Profile

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Fallow | Pause | Bloom

2 Herons Crossing

From A Former Life

Tread Collective

Salt Lines: Winter Marsh Walk

Artist Statement

Creative Facilitator

Contemporary Artist & Ecological Practitioner

Professional Profile

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Top Tips

Don’t think about it for months - just begin creating.

A painful lesson: over-researching, sketching, planning and mulling can kill a project before it breathes.

Having spent 18 months contemplating a re

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“Friendship” prompt
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Monday mornings at Seasalter Beach became our lifeline during Covid. @rosalind9868, @lindasyarntherapy & I with fibre arts tucked in bags, created our way through isolation and uncertai

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Asking Questions

…stay curious!

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Traditions

Morning walks - a family ritual. The outer wall on Dad’s workshop had a shelf which held our daily finds: stones, shells, hagstones, curious fragments gathered on dawn wanderings. I carried this forward

#stl25day4 “Warp”
#stl25day5 “Found”
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Still playing catch up so woven 2 day’s prompt into one post(see what I did there)

Found carpet fragment with seaweed woven through synthetic fibers with an

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day 3 “yellow”

#quincejacket which had screen printing taken from an earlier Lino cut & sublimation dye on the reverse side…celebrating the Spring equinox

@seam_collective’s #septtextileloveday2

“Inspiring exhibition”

As I’m idle (& playing catch up) I’ve chose to use the last show I visited - Grayson Perry at Wallace Collection...Delusions Of Grandeur…Spirit

Late to the party, but excited to dive into @seam_collective’s #septtextilelove prompts!

I create textiles using natural materials foraged from the Swale and Medway marshlands in North Kent. Walking where water meets land, I gather bark, berr

@pitt.jane leading the Hoo Sounds listening walk yesterday as part of @whose.hoo.project

Her blend of audio-visual art, ecology & walking was so beautifully delivered. Active listening exercises, underwater contact mics & fantastic group ch

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Tit on tour… #clevedonmarinelake lake…Sun-drenched on day one, solo dawn drizzle with @mrssophiewofie holding the tea and towel day 2

Prototype 1 @chrisbodle’s beautiful “flotilla” looking forward to

This evenings walk around the orchards with Smokey Joe before the light began to fade

Found myself cataloguing the biodiversity thriving in the farm’s headlands (after @saratrillo’s fabulous talk on her #folkestonetriennial works) - thym

@saratrillo giving a tour of her incredible Folkestone Triennial artwork “Urn Field” just above the Warren this morning as part of the Landscapes of Hope weekend

Her blend of anthropology, archeology, geology, myth & technical how to

Morning walk through Queens Down Warren with Smokey Joe before the earth turns molten.

Found this beauty nestled in the leaf litter - initially my heart whispered *buzzard* but my field guide revealed the truth: hen pheasant. Interesting about this

Got delightfully turned around this morning wandering through orchards and sweetcorn fields with Smokey Joe (the corn really is as high as an elephant’s eye!) when I stumbled upon a whole windbreak of alders heavy with green catkins.

Future in

Salt wind carries seeds
to crack the hardest concrete—
nature finds her way

Fantabulous day at Reculver with @tread_collective

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Sediment & Texture
Accumulated Trace

Thank you @halperngallery for a splendid Private View this evening; @chloe_mckenzie_creates & I had a great time

When the 3rd person came up to me saying they knew I was here because they recognised my work... I’m taking that as a good thi

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07875 235346
v.o.claridge@gmail.com