Earth Memory: 'The primal responses to the basic materials of the earth are to tread upon it and delve within it. Since the dawn of civilization, people, their companion animals and livestock, as well as the indigenous wildlife, have trodden this land. Their footprints are the trace or index that someone, human or animal, once existed and walked in this place. The fact that the distinct red soil of this valley has been dug and farmed for centuries makes one feel that echoes of ancestors, the traces and overlapping of their activities and belief systems, must be imprinted on the memory of the land.'

Tribal, ancient and organic in appearance, Maddy Norris work is inspired by the spirit-of-place of the Rocombe Valley. It both acknowledges vestiges of an earlier time and responds to her experience of working with the red soil to create the Spiral for the Art Farm Project. That soil also provides the rich red-brown pigment used in Maddy's work, keeping the integrity of the link between the Spiral and the work intact.

Spirals and labyrinths are a recurring theme in Maddy's art, 'A spiral echoes all existence, from galaxies to the minute particle of an atom, DNA, the process of phyllotaxis and Fibonacci numbers. The ritual of walking a spiral or labyrinth can be a profoundly spiritual and healing journey, linking the past with the present and the physical with the spiritual.'