"Sound Scape" 2018.

"Sound Scape" was performed at The Lowry in Salford, a theatre and exhibitions venue, in the Promenade Gallery with photos and information about L.S. Lowry,1887-1976, RBA RA, who drew and painted the area where he lived. It was extremely well received by visitors to the galleries and the theatre as well as those who came specially to hear it. This was the fifth performance and it was once again, completely different to the previous performances.

"The News: Remember, Remember" 2018.

Gold painted wood, silk poppies and peace lilies. 160 x 60 x 60 cms

"The News: Remember, Remember" is the fifth sculpture in the theme of “The News” which started in 2016– see images below, - and was made for Cheshire Artists Network Exhibition ‘War& Peace’ at Chester Cathedral commemorating the end of World War 1.

"Oak Tree" 2018.

Painted wood branches and steel leaves. 120 x 120 cms.

“Oak Tree” was commissioned by McGarvey Jones Financial Planning in Manchester for their board room. It is mounted 5cms from the wall showing the changing shadows during the day.

"Framed" 2018.

Painted wood frame, painted steel and copper leaves.
Dimensions variable.

"Framed" was conceived in conjunction with Julia Harding's premiere of "St Barnabus at the Fourth Bandstand", for the Barnaby Festival 2018, at Tegg's Nose in Macclesfield with KEMS Concert Band. "Framed" alludes to the bandstand implying enclosure as well as framing the landscape. Macclesfield has four parks originally with three bandstands, but now only has two - this was a new temporary one.

"To be, or not to be ....." 2017.

“To be, or not to be ….” was made in 2017 at a time of turmoil in the world which was particularly violent and destructive, leading to the migration of millions of people seeking refuge from the horrors of war. The five languages are English, Latin, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic. It has been shown in Bollington Arts Centre and Chester Cathedral in Cheshire Artists Network exhibitions.

Summer 2017

"Summer 2017" was made for Cheshire Artists Network's new exhibition ‘Tatton: New Perspectives’ in the Stewards Hall, Mansion House, in Tatton Park until 29th Oct.

In 2008 I made three installations about the deer in Tatton Park with painted branches representing their antlers.

"Spring, Summer and Autumn 1, 2 and 3" within Something Beautiful in Cheshire 's Year of Gardens. This new work is made from grasses and wild flowers with painted twigs found in the park.

'Sound Scape' was included in Cheshire Open Studios Exhibition at Charles Roe House in Macclesfield. The nine sculptures were installed and two compilations of the music have been recorded and complied by Paul Maddocks, Sound Engineer, in conjunction with Julia Harding, the composer, for continuous playing throughout the exhibition when the musicians are not present.

'Sound Scape' 2016

9 Art in Nature Sculptures with music composed by Julia Harding.
Materials/names of sculptures/music compositions:
Rock, Log, Water, Feathers, Tree, Parasitic Plant, Pebbles, Coal, Earth.

Dimensions variable.

'Sound Scape' is an interactive installation with 9 art in nature sculptures and music composed by Julia Harding developed in 2016. It was awarded an a-n Artist Information Company Professional Development Bursary. The world premiere was on Sunday 18th September and a further performance will be on February 23rd at Manchester Art Gallery included in the 'Thursday Lates' programme. Each performance is different according to the choices of the musicians in selecting the sculptures and the music and lasts around 40 minutes.

'Sound Scape' has nine sections, every performer plays every section at least once and there should not be any attempt to achieve synchronisation of the parts but performers should feel free to respond musically to each other during the performance.

'Sound Scape' was included in Cheshire Open Studios Exhibition at Charles Roe House in Macclesfield. The nine sculptures were installed and two compilations of the music have been recorded and complied by Paul Maddocks, Sound Engineer, in conjunction with Julia Harding, the composer, for continuous playing throughout the exhibition when the musicians are not present.

'The Giving Tree' 2016.

Commissioned by the Trustees of Tarporley War Memorial Hospital in Cheshire to raise funds for the hospital which has been in existence since 1919. The names of donors will be written on the 450 leaves by a calligrapher.

There are three sizes of leaves - small, medium and large in copper, satin stainless steel, light and dark green powder coated steel, attached to the branches of the painted trees.Approx. 4m wide x 3m high.

'The News' 2015-2017.

A series of sculptures which relate to recent events in the news - in 2015 - WW1 centenary and the news of the many wars around the world during that period. 'The News' is of painted wood and chains, 'The News: Prisoners' is painted wood and chains, and 'The News: Remembrance' is painted wood and silk poppies.

In 2017, 'The News: Brexit', 2017, of painted branches, fencing clips, an apple crate with tissue paper, represents how Britain will become insular, trapped, less outward and isolated not only by the actions but also because it is an island. The series will continue.

“El Eco del Pasada - Echo from the Past” 2014
Made for Tufi'Arte 2014 in Tufia, Gran Canaria, an international symposium of 14 projects organised by AiNIN - Art in Nature International Network. The whole village helped with all the projects during the week as well as hosting the artists.

The painting, 28m x 18m, of white lime with black and pink pigment, represents the conch or caracola horn that was blown by the Guanche - the original people of Gran Canaria before battle. It is under the flight path - visible from the planes.

“Falling leaves” 2014
For The Sculpture Show- The Visionary Landscape of Professor Sir Robert Burgess, at The Harold Martin Botanic Gardens at the University of Leicester.
Cherry logs, specially designed glass “leaves” in 5 colours, stainless steel.
Ht. 2.5m x Dia. 95cms.

“Falling leaves” recognises the importance of The Harold Martin Botanic Gardens and its position in the world of research. The “leaves” represent the changing colours from early spring when yellow, through summer with various greens, into autumn with rich browns and gold, are inlaid into a reconstructed deconstructed cherry tree cut down in 2011 from across the road where I live. It has been replaced with a healthy tree and the original tree lives once more.

“La Mouette/The Seagull” 2014
Commissioned by Usine Utopik for the 2nd  Symposium, Bords de Vire in Saint Lô and Tessy-sur-Vire, Normandy, France.

White painted branches with black tips. Ht. 4m x W.9m x D.2m.

Seagulls are generally seen in the sky, on the sea, the beach and the ground. For four months Saint Lô will have its own seagull in a tree by the River Vire.

'Sylvan Sparkle' 2013/14
for Elephant Parade UK National Tour 2013/14.

'Sylvan Sparkle' is covered with artificial jungle leaves including banana, cassava, zebra and yucca, and jewels - diamonds, topaz, emeralds etc between them representing the sun shining through the leaves and sparkling on the ground.

La Cloche Perdue 2013
Ht.7m x dia.1.5m
Painted wood branches in colours of fire, bronze painted cane.

Commissioned by Lez'Arts en Adret for 'Fantastique' the theme of Sentier Artistique Hautecour 2013, Savoie, France. The sculpture illustrates the moment when the bell melted into the ground.

'La légende de la Cloche Perdue' by Lorna Green

Once upon a time a long time ago in the village of Hautecourt a very strange event happened. One dark and foggy night a large bell suddenly appeared in the wood. It seemed to come from the sky and the villagers could not understand how it appeared and where it had come from. For several days they pondered over its existence and soon made plans to install it in the church tower. Arrangements were made to move it but the night before this was due to happen — there came a great storm, wind, rain, thunder and lightening, more violent and frightening than anyone had seen or experienced before. Suddenly, there came from the sky, in the biggest flash of lightening ever seen, a thunderbolt, which set fire to the trees around the bell. In the intense heat of the fire the bell became molten and gradually disappeared into the ground. The villagers watched the great fire with fear and trembling as the bell which arrived from the sky slowly melted into the earth.. No trace of the bell was ever found — no one knew where it came from and no one knows where it went to, but maybe it returned to the depths of the earth where the copper was originally mined? The mystery of the lost bell may never be resolved.

'Asseyez-vous et regardez' 2012
20m x 18m x 1.5m
For 'Mine d'art en sentier 2012' , an 8 kilometre trail in the Parc naturel régional Scarpe-Escaut, le Pays de Condé in the Nord-Pas de Calais Basin, an area once famous for its mining industry.

'Asseyez-vous et régardez' with mounds of red and black schist, surround 10 boulders inlaid with brass 'jetons' —representing the miners' identity discs, is for people walking or cycling the trail to relax and enjoy the surrounding landscape. Eleven sculptors from around the world took part in the symposium.

2011, 'Red'
H 2.5m x W 1.5m x D 1.15m
Olive tree from Portugal, specially designed glass and red paint.

For 1st International Olive Wood Symposium, Gangelt, Germany organised by Sculpture Network, Germany

2011, 'Liber Plantarum'
2m x 3.2m x 3.5m
Made for a 'A Decade of Sculpture' at The Harold Martin Botanic Gardens, University of Leicester.

The Harold Martin Botanic Gardens are renowned for their research focus in floristics (cataloguing and describing the species in a geographical region) and taxonomy, (classification). 'Liber Plantarum' - (The Book of Plants) uses materials from the gardens - various plants and bamboo, boulders, dressed stone, slate, pavers and plant pots, in recognition of the studies of the scientists and gardeners.

'Blue Bird' 2011
Iridescent blue painted branches each 75 cms.
Height. 5m x wingspans 4.5m.

'3Rs: Reclaimed, Recycled, Raw' Sculpture Trail in the Vale of Belvoir.
The path along the Grantham Canal in Belvoir, is home to many species of birds — 'Blue Bird' flutters gently in the breeze from a tree by Stenwith Bridge.

'River' 2011
8m x 12m x 0.5m
Limestone grit stone boulders inlaid with designed glass 'pools' and painted 'rivulets' sited on blue tarmac.

Commissioned by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for the entrance to the new Darwen Leisure Centre, Lancashire. The sculpture echoes the theme of water throughout the Leisure Centre.

'Blooming Branches' 2010
Red blue and green plastic bottle tops - each 'bloom' about 30cms long, and green, brown, olive and clear glass wine and beer bottles hanging by fisherman's twine from the branches of Pandanus trees.

Made for 'artsCape Biennial 2010,' June 26th to July 11th, at Clarkes Beach, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia.

Play the two videos simultaneously for a sense of the
sounds of the five 'Blooming Branches' with glass bottles when the wind blows.

'The Festival Labyrinth' 2009 with Jeff Teasdale
30m x 15m x 3m.  150 Kerridge sandstone boulders and crushed stone, seeded with 9 grasses.

This is the permanent sculpture for the Bollington Festival on the Middlewood Way off Grimshaw Lane, in Bollington, Cheshire, funded by the National Lottery Awards for All Scheme and The Bollington Festival, and managed by MAGPIE- Macclesfield Arts Group for Projects in the Environment - with the invaluable help of many volunteers from Bollington.

August 2012
May 2010
October 2009
September 2009

'The Bollington Festival Labyrinth' 2009 with Jeff Teasdale
Pink water-based masonry paint, oak. 15m x 14m

This labyrinth, was a temporary installation for the Bollington Festival in May 2009, forming part of the Artists' Trail and as a memorial to Dr John Coope and the previous festivals he inspired.

'Snowdrops for Cambo' 2009
Stone, pebbles, and wood sprayed with white paint, natural slate. Sizes variable.

Commissioned by The Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, St Andrews, Fife as part of Scotland's Snowdrop Festival. Each of the seven sculptures was inspired by the progress of the snowdrops around the selected sites at the time of making - from closed to full bloom.

The Terracotta Garden. 2008/9
2,500 approx. fired clay leaves.

One of three community projects commissioned by Cheshire Artists Network as part of their Art in Gardens programme linked to Cheshire Year of Gardens 2008. The community projects have been funded by Arts Council England - North West and supported by numerous individuals and organisations.

The 2,500 leaves in spirals, a common feature of the community projects, are made from fired red clay by the students of Woodford Lodge High School, The Verdin High School and Hebden Green Community School in Winsford, and Mid Cheshire College in Northwich, and is sited in an internal courtyard at Woodford Lodge High School for all the involved schools and college to use in any creative way.

Photo: David Heke

'Solar Light' 2008
Polyester sunflowers, painted branches, plastic containers, cement.
Flag: 1.25m x 30cms x 2m. Sunflower Trees: variable.

Commissioned by Galerija Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania for 'Kaunas Mene:Kontekstai - Kaunas in Art:Contexts' Contemporary Art Festival in nine venues in the city. The aim of 'Solar Light' was to bring warmth and sunlight to a city that is dark, grey and cold with little sunlight between November and March.

'Timescale' 2008

Varnished blue slate monoliths, brass discs, brass lamps with acrylic, Cor-ten steel arch, blue solar lights, Whinstone gravel, magnesium limestone boulders, and magnesium limestone dust to be planted with heritage plants in the autumn,
L. 50m x W. 30m x Ht.4m

Commissioned by Kelloe Community Partnership in conjunction with Durham County Council for the site adjacent to the original railway line from the colliery which closed in 1983, to reference not only the village's heritage but also its aspirations for the future.

	Photo: Trevor Smith
	Photo: Trevor Smith
Photo: Trevor Smith	Photo: Trevor Smith

'Saver > Screens' 2008

Plastic bags, powder coated silver and black steel screens, photos.
Ht. 2.25m x Dia. 2.5m

Commissioned by The Co-operative Financial Services for the foyer of the CIS Building in Manchester as part of their internal campaign to raise issues on re-using plastic bags and protecting the environment.

'Une Rivière pour l'Arc Mosellan' 2008

40m x 25m x 20cm. 13 tonnes of stone and metallic paints.
This was chosen for the 1er Symposium International de Sculpture de l'Arc Mosellan , Moulin de Buding, France.

The theme of the symposium was 'l'eau, une énergie' - the water, an energy - and the project refers to the water wheel of the mill which is powered by the the canal fed by the meandering La Canner River as well as to the contrast between the natural river and the constructed elements of the canal and the wheel with the use of natural stones and dressed stone blocks and is sprayed with various paints for colour and the sparkle of water in the sunlight.

Photo: Alain Mila

'Spring, Summer and Autumn'. 1, 2 and 3. 2008

Commissioned by Cheshire County Council for 'Something Beautiful' in Tatton Park, Knutsford for 'Cheshire's Year of Gardens 2008'

The installations are about the life cycle of the deer in the park using fallen branches to represent antlers, painted in the colours of leaves from the yellows of early spring, the greens of summer to the rich tones of autumn - birth to death of both deer and leaves.

Individual tableaux within the three 'herds' illustrate their habits - the frequent violent relationships between the males and females, the docility of the older ones, the battles between the stags and the bucks, the births and deaths, as well as the groups of young ones, male and female, who huddle together for protection and to learn from their elders.

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'Verso l'Inizio - Towards the Beginning' with Carlotta Brunetti 2008
100m x 30m x 5m. Hay, string and willow tree.

The dead hay rises up and over a river into the tree of life, the willow, to be regenerated.

For 'Humus Park' International Land Art Meeting in Pordenone, Italy, with 30 artists from 15 countries participating.

Photo: Carlotta Brunetti

"Homage to Fantin-Latour" 2007
6m x 5m x 4.5m.

Commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition 'Painting the Summer : Henri Fantin-Latour' at York Art Gallery as a response to the many paintings of flowers included.

Polyester roses, wood from the Yorkshire Museum Gardens, painted garden urn and vases, and side table from the York Museums Trust collection.

"Bouquet" 2006
4m x 2.5m x 2.5m. Powder coated and painted steel, gravel, allotment beds made from railway sleepers.

Commissioned by Windmill Hill Primary School, Runcorn, Cheshire as the centrepiece for their allotment beds. 'Bouquet' is the result of workshops with all the pupils of the school.

'The Sword and the Stone' 2006

18m x 5m x 5cm. Stainless steel, copper, paving stones, gold and silver paint, and large Golden Spey boulder.

Commissioned by Feelgood Theatre Productions for the 2006 Summer Season and Activity Tent for 'Arthur - King of the Britons', Heaton Park, Manchester.

"Look, Reflect and Recover" 1 and 2. 2005

Two roof gardens with five 3m high "fountains" in total, of stainless steel rods threaded with varied sizes of specially made blue glass beads in "pools" of blue glass chippings in aluminium dishes surrounded by blue neon lights. The "rivers" are of limestone spray-painted with blue enamel paints, glitter and lacquer; each element is surrounded by pebbles. Artificial rocks complete the two gardens

Commissioned by Gateshead NHS Trust for the new North East NHS Surgery Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

"Deux Lignes de Couleur dans l'Eau"
For Chemin d'art 2005, Saint-Flour, France.

70 stones in the river on both sides of the bridges: one side with fluorescent red paint, and the other with fluorescent yellow paint.

Tree of Grace, Tree of Love and Admiration, and Tree of Purity. 2005.

Branches and artificial roses, lilies and carnations on the beach for the Swell Currumbin Sculpture Festival, Queensland, Australia. The titles refer to the symbolism of the flowers.

"A River for the Botanic Gardens" 2005
90m long x 1.5m average x 20 cms high.

For "Sculpture in the Garden" a celebration exhibition of the Royal British Society of Sculptors Centenary at the HaroldMartin Botanic Gardens, Leicester University.

20 tonnes of stone and three colours of blue metallic paint.

"Enjoy, View and Use" 2004
100m x 70m x 10m

Two amphitheatre forms divided by a ridge for play, performance and events, within the park in the new development, The Hamptons, at Worcester Park, Surrey.
Commissioned by the St James Group Ltd.

January 2012 Photo: David Rymill

2004 3rd International Artists Symposium, Westbury Farm Studios, Milton Keynes.

Scrapstore Series: Blue Bloom Blue bottles, plastic covered rods in apple tree	Scrapstore Series: Blue Line on the Swimming Pool - detail Blue plastic discs on acetate 18m x 9m x 1cm
Scrapstore Series: Green Branch - detail Green bottles suspended by thread from a branch. 8m x 50cm x 10cm	Scrapstore Series: Blue Line in the Drawing Room - detail Blue plastic lids and blue plastic chippings 7m x 1.5m x 1cm

2004 "Marquer d'une Pierre Blanche" for Les Doigts d'Art, Salins-Les-Bains, France.
26 stones in 21 sites throughout the town

Stones painted white, to represent salt, inlaid with eurocents to represent the first Credit Agricole.
Dimensions variable.

Trough outside Les Salines (salt mine)	Hôtel de Ville
House of the first Credit Agricole	L'église de St. Maurice

2003."Doors of Perception".
Approx. 25m x 10m x 25m

Seven blue painted doors with glass windows, and five curved walls of peat blocks.
Commissioned for PeatPolis.nl, Barger Compascum, Emmen, The Netherlands.

2003/4 "Garden of Achievement"
Newall Green High School, Wythenshawe, Manchester.
A CAPE UK Project.
29m x 18m x 1.5m

Sandstone, granite, marble, slate, varied planting for all seasons. A science rock garden for elements of Key Stage 3 Geology with themed planting, working with Years 8 and 9 in 2003 and Years 7 and 8 in 2004.

2003 "Stones of Life - Journey of Silver"
7m x 7m x 3.5m

Granite and stainless steel. The stones represent the salt mines of the area; the steel, the hopes and aspirations of the children.

Commissioned by Wharton C.E. Controlled Junior School, Winsford, Cheshire. Fabricated by Cornish Landscaping Granite.

Flower Cow-er, 2003
CowParade Manchester 2004.
2m x 90cm x 1.2m. Fibreglass, Astroturf, artificial flowers, paint.

Commissioned by CowParade Manchester 2004 to promote the event.

'Play, Perform and Picnic", 2002
120 m x 40m x 3m

Lakawanna Park, Penticton, BC, Canada. . Two earthworks with neon light beneath blue painted glass blocks and three l0m diameter circles with galvanised steel edging of purple rocks on pink gravel, yellow rocks on brown lava gravel, grey/white striated rocks on white silica gravel.

Commissioned by The Okanagan/Thompson International Sculpture Symposium, BC, Canada 

at night....

L'Office du Tourisme, Saint-Lô. Silk roses, poppies from Remembrance Day, Astroturf, sound composed by Paul Weir.

Commissioned by Forum des Arts for Maîtres des lieux, Saint-Lô, Normandy, France.

Granite with painted wood. 

For "From the Buds of Small Grass", 2001 Geum Gang International Nature Art Exhibition, Kongju, Korea

"Wald, Apfelbaum, Farbe, Leben" 2001.
80m x 20m x 4m

Larch, 4 colours of stain.

Commissioned for Kraftplatzroas
(energy emitting sculpture walk),
Irdning in the Grimming Region of Styria, Austria

(detail)

Commissioned by Covent Garden Flower Festival for The Urban Arts Garden

Spoil with grass, wildflowers, trees, shrubs, paths and designed wooden seating still to be completed. Adjacent to the final link of the Avon Ring Road, Bristol.

2001 'Drink Me!' Oak branches. 
2.15m x 1.35m x 1.1m. 
Commissioned for 'onetree' 2001-2. The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Notts; Tatton Park, Cheshire; Bristol City Art Gallery; The Geffrye Museum, London.
Photo: Robert Walker.

"15 Christchurch Circles"2000
35m x 15m x 1m
Otago schist, greywacke pebbles, Halswell and Volcanic stones,flax, cabbage trees, tussocks

For "Art in the Park" Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
Organised by Professional Arts Services

Rochdale Partnership/Canalside SRB

Commissioned by "Sculpture by Sea" Bondi Headlands, Sydney, Australia

Greenfield Valley, Holywell
Commissioned by Greenfield Valley Trust Ltd/
Cywaith Cymru - Artworks Wales

Commissioned for The Chester Fringe Festival in Grosvenor Park, Chester

Commissioned by Opportunities for Women/Friends of the Earth. Islington Green, London

Changchun China International Invitation
Exhibition of Sculpture

Stockport Art Gallery

Cribbs Causeway Shopping Centre, Bristol
J T Baylis and Co Ltd

The Chancellors Court, University of Leeds

"Conversation" 1999
2m x 2m x 2m
Linking "Meet, Sit and Talk" in Chancellors Court with final stage of re-design

"Roof Garden" in collaboration with John Micklethwaite-Howe of BHWB, Leeds, with "Conversation" and "Meet, Sit and Talk"

The sculpture projects in The Chancellor's Court received two commendations for Landscape from Leeds City Council's Architecture 2000 awards.

Ceramics Biennale, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Dartington C.E Primary School, Devon, in conjunction with the Centre for Earthen Architecture, University of Plymouth

"Stay, Live and Sit" 1993.
Dacite boulders and polished granite. 35m x 25m x 1m.
Commissioned by Monash University Gallery for the Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne.
permanently sited at Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne.

Detail of polished granite stepping stones completing the double spiral of boulders inlaid with rectangles of polished black granite.

Das andere Gedächtnis, Kampnagel, Hamburg

Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Western Australia

Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn, Cheshire

"Capability to Contemporary" at Tatton Park,
Knutsford, Cheshire

Commissioned by the International Conference on Sculpture, Dublin.
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin

'New Directions, New Attitudes' — The Richard Demarco Gallery at the Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Commissioned by the Norfolk Naturalists Trust for Foxley Wood Sculpture Trail

Commissioned by the Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park 2, in Tout Quarry, Portland.

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