Henry Moore Back to a Land

Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Helen Pheby

p.13
"In researching the YSP 2015 exhibition we became intrigued by Moore's less explicit, yet continuous, expression of what lies beneath - be that the land and its layers of geology and human activity, organic structures and bones, or his own psyche - which although he resisted understanding, he drew on within his creative process."

I thought this line was so apt 'what lies beneath - be that the land and its layers of geology and human activity, organic structures and bones' to describe how I think about land.

And a quote on p.13 too from Jacquetta Hawke's introduction to her book 'A Land' - "... the image I have sought to evoke is of an entity, the land of Britain, in which past, present, nature, man and art appear all in one piece."

p. 17
Moore, in reaction to the Royal Academy and other schools using marble, carved directly into English stone. This feels so right - how do I incorporate natural. local materials into my artwork?

• Kahikatea wood ?
• Handmade paper ?
• Handmade paint from local sources?
• Leaving paper in Speedy's Bush for a length of time ?