‘Home from Home’

This body of work is for Pennie Metcalfe a representation of a Moorland Pathway: an evocative landscape and habitat, isolating in nature. Their bleak vastness of rich colours, textures, and ancient horizons, silhouetted with sheep and ancient stone, become a personal doorway to memories and a sense of real belonging. 

Walking through nature connects and ‘grounds’ us. For this reason, walking has long been a part of the tradition of religious observance and pilgrimage. Each separate walk is a specific experience, a personal journey varied by its choice of pathway from beginning to end. Conversely each individual walk also has commonality and can be reminiscent of previous walks on other occasions, with other people or in other areas.

The Weather, the fauna, the flora, the terrain, the time of day and season, Pennie’s emotions and physical well-being, her level of sensory alertness and whether it be a solitary or an accompanied walk ….., all of these things play a part in her connection with the landscape. Each contributes to the pathway that she follows both literally and metaphorically towards a window of further self-discovery and creative opportunity.

Hand Felted Fibre Sculpture, 2023.  Dimensions:  58cmx42cmx26cm;                                                                                                                                                                                                     Materials: Jurassic limestone, iron, wool, yarn