Deborah Treliving's collagraph prints reflect her fascination with layers of history contained in language and a corresponding sense of historical change made visible in old buildings:

'Each generation makes changes, sometimes following fashion, but with farm buildings, alterations are more often due to need and changing use. New doorways are made, spaces blocked up, windows altered, new voids created. All this is evident at Middle Rocombe Farm, visible through change of materials, differing textures and colours, altered surfaces and contours. Around the farm, buildings and gates have been added, hedges, paths, driveways and fences altered'.

The choice to exhibit collagraph plates as objects of beauty in their own right emphasises this interest in texture, edge and composite form, echoing the materials of the farm - bricks, stones, cob - and the boundaries that contain them.

Deborah plays with textures in language, too, often to surprising effect. For example, a proverb used in her work, 'Why a buy a cow when milk is so cheap?' sounds like a contemporary advertising slogan, but in fact is 300 years old. Her work highlights how language travels through history, building layers of meaning.

Pursuing a fresh challenge, Deborah has made work for Rocombe that is susceptible to the elements. This, too, speaks of transience and change:

'Many of the buildings and the farm will outlive us all. Historically we, the artists, are just passing through. We are altering the farm and the landscape, and adding to our lives by doing so. We are also contributing to the diversification of farming debate.'