Terra Incognita is a series of round-format oil paintings made with foraged earth pigments and metaphysical minerals. The first three works were created with materials gathered from Lindisfarne Holy Island, a site rich with sacred resonance. Framed as portals, they invite the viewer into unknown geographies—inner and elemental.

With Terra Incognita (4), the series entered a new phase. This painting was made with crushed Malachite, a stone known for its transformative properties. During its creation, I was visited by the Malachite spirit in waking and sleeping dreams. The work became a vessel of healing, dissolving deep layers of self-criticism and restoring my voice.

Terra Incognita, Mane of Mourning continues this unfolding through indigo, cultivated and processed from the plant in the UK. Chosen for its depth and its history, indigo holds both grief and transformation within its color. Worked into flowing striations, the surface becomes a mane—an unruly cascade of mourning, at once restrained by the circular form and breaking against it. From afar, the painting appears as a dark celestial body; up close, intricate currents emerge, shifting between sound and silence, absence and presence. This work is a vessel of grief—wailing held within stillness, mourning that is both personal and cosmic.

Terra Incognita charts the terrain of intuitive vision, pigment as presence, and the unseen forces that move through matter. It is not a map of what is known—but of what reveals itself in the act of becoming.