Heatherwick Studios, Aberystwyth 2013

In 2009 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, a department of Aberystwyth University, opened an award winning complex of eighteen Creative Studios, designed by Thomas Heatherwick, for artists and creative businesses, three of these distinctive units have been reserved for use in a rolling programme of temporary Artists in Residence. Since the Studios opened there have been either two or three visual artists at a time, from both the UK and elsewhere in the world, spending three months 'in residence' in Aberystwyth.

The residency programme provided me with the opportunity to explore new and contrasting landscapes in and around the surrounding areas of Aberystwyth. I gathered materials and images from the coastal bays as well as the forest trails of Ystwyth and Nant yr Arian. I created a series of pen and wash drawings which depicted a particular place, an outline of a building or things of interest I had collected. It was my way of mapping and documenting a specific period of time in a new area.