Square collage, muted earthy tones, landscape with ambiguous structure at the horizon

2022

Folk Horror

Twenty-six square collages drawn from the visual grammar of British folk horror — edgeland sites, ritual remnants, figures half-consumed by landscape.

The folk horror tradition has always been less about the supernatural than about what happens when a community turns in on itself — when the landscape stops being backdrop and becomes agent. These collages work from that premise.

Each canvas is 42 × 42 cm: deliberately domestic, held in the hand. The square format resists landscape conventions; nothing can be panoramic at this scale. The imagery is distilled from vernacular sources — fête photographs, parish records, maps of contested commons — processed until the specificity drops away and what remains is atmosphere, residue, dread.

The series was shown as a complete set of twenty-six in November 2022.