Claire Ward’s fascinating show ‘Intimately Connected’ is at Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery in Alnwick this January and February.

Claire Ward: “My connection with landscape and nature began in childhood when I roamed woods and pasture close to my home in Kent. Solitary walks and observing nature have been at the centre of my life since. It is this connection that drives my practice which generally begins with a found object – natural or manmade – that fascinates me in some way. Working with my hands and using simple tools allow me to closely explore these objects and to go on an imaginative journey to find the form that they reveal. In the making of my work I am seeking a blurring of the boundaries between the natural and the manmade and how the two might coalesce to create a geology or natural history of our intimately connected presence on this Earth.”

Intimately Connected, 13 January-28 February, Bailiffgate, Alnwick, bailiffgatemuseum.co.uk