Angela Holmes

'June at Rocombe Farm - a hot day and the forces of nature are rampant. At the same time there is decay: sturdy, healing dock leaves are riddled with a mass of bullet-like holes, pungent elderflowers grow within discarded reels of barbed wire, tender grasses co-exist with rusty metal. Damaged leaves and old metal grids share a sense of stillness and structure and, at the same time, offer vistas into the changing patterns of summer growth and light beyond.'

For the Art Farm Project, sculptor and stone carver Angela Holmes has made a series of collagraph prints made from organic and discarded materials found on site, reflecting the tensions between growth and decay, natural and man-made surfaces, form and aperture.

As a sculptor, Angela often works with the relationship between complimentary stones, such as Cornish Polyphant Stone and Dorset Limestone, allowing apertures and divides between stones to have a presence and language as expressive as the mass of stone itself. Working with the interplay of fragments, her collagraphs for the Art Farm complement, in two-dimensional form, her interest in relationships between materials and between the polarities of space and substance.