Wöde Wif or Wodewose is a female figure often depicted in medieval art and folklore, covered in hair or living in the woods, the “Green Woman” representing wild-nature-based-spirits.   

This series of small egg tempera paintings reflect the experience of the painter facilitating a course titled Figure in the Landscape where a life model was taken into woodland on the West Dean estate. The overriding sense was one of how small and vulnerable we are. In each of the paintings is a figure, diminutive in scale, defenceless against the elements.  

These paintings are studies for large scale paintings, the emphasis will remain the same, that the force of nature is beyond our control and that wildness is in everyone, especially woman, who are often pushed to the brink and who then recalibrate to a new normal.  

 In these mad times connections are everything.