Gill

Part of the creation process for me is to visit a place and walk. What occurs when I walk is that I go completely ‘out of time’. I walk through countryside that has not changed much in centuries. I hear birds singing, bunnies bouncing, cows chomping, insects buzzing and know that these sounds were exactly the same 5000 years ago. I often tune in to flashes of history and even emotions – I have no doubt that places retain memories put there by life forms long gone. As I walk - no anchor to the present - I am happy to forget what time period it is, who I am and where I come from. I am happy to just exist and look at the spectacle nature is performing around me. I am a dryad in the woods, and a selkie by the sea, a wise woman, a witch, a fairy, a warrior, an elf. I am anything I care to imagine but cleverly disguised as an overweight middle aged woman so nobody really sees me.