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Sophie Mason is an artist and gardener exploring our relationship with the natural world.

Landscape (London, Autumn)

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Got a new show opening on the 6th October in London. Exhibiting with the wonderful @louisehildrethart at the @therectoryprojects in Poplar. Come along and see!
At 4pm we will have @hedgeherbs running one of her infamous herbal workshops. And later I hear whispers of flute and harp music. :) Excited!!!! If you can’t make opening night it’s on for a week by appointment only. #rectoryprojects #art #forage

Someone I trust very much has told me i should share my processes more.. so here we go!

I am working on a series where I use the fabric of the canvas as an intermediary for ritualised actions made with/within nature.
First I dye the canvas with a plant (this one is dyed with avocado stones), then I will dunk it in the sea, rub herbs into it, bury it, tie it to trees, use ash, coals, flowers, wood and soils, leave it to be washed by the rain, burnt by the sun and blown around by the wind.

I will use whatever is around me in that particular landscape and I will try to do this without attachment to the outcome.
Then I cut it up and stretch it up and try to use painting to dialogue with the residual marks. (This is the hard bit!) This is in Galicia, the west coast of Spain. The land is very similar to the uk except you can grow more. You can see an elder next to a lemon tree next to a blackberry next to an avocado tree!
Behind me in this first picture is a natural spring which runs through the garden. They have hydrangeas everywhere. So far with this canvas I have buried it in the spring, used hydrangeas, moss, coal and soil. This is just the beginning though!

#landscape #painting #paintingprocess #galicia

Lovely few days creating a Landscape of a beautiful private garden in the uk. The colours came out completely differently once again. Soil, weather and time of year all affect the colours made from the plants. These photos really don’t do them justice! Plants featured in no particular order: raspberry, beetroot, cosmos, white rose, plum, kale, hawthorn, elder, chard. Can you tell which is which!? #landscape #plantdyes

Exercises in Form and Colour - a small slice of frivolity and joy from this weekend. #countryside #watercolor #formandcolour