'Farms like Middle Rocombe are at a turning point. The land itself, with its steep hills, has dictated that the farm remains part of peasant farming tradition. Now it's facing new questions: how can it develop? How can small-holdings remain viable? Farming is often a tiny, one-person business, as it art-making - and now they're farming artists!'

Jan O'Highway's work tracks the storyline of the Art Farm Project over the course of a year, documenting the changing use of the land over the seasons. Her approach - combining photography, journals, digital scans and short movies - is a visually driven response to the environment, concerned with abstraction and pattern, and also an observation of artists at work. 'I enjoy documenting the everyday, picking out the essence of a particular place.'

Jan's work is both interactive and highly collaborative. Using the new medium of Internet Dialogue, she is gathering instantaneous, international responses to her work in progress. Drawing on the work of David Bohm, Internet Dialogue is concerned with open-structured discourse that is based on equal status. 'Like a conversation at a dinner table, it's elliptical, you don't know where conversation will go.' These responses are exhibited alongside Jan's large-scale digital prints and video work.

Jan trained in painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. In recent years, she has worked primarily in mosaic, ceramic, and steel, focusing on public art and participatory arts projects.