Hedges

In Somerset, where Rowena worked from her studio, the hedges around Shave Farm were alive with abundance. Beyond them lay dairy farms where hedgerows were usually cut hard and early, trimmed back before winter, leaving little fruit for birds or shelter for life. At Shave, the hedges were allowed to billow and grow wild—a riot of colour and texture, heavy with berries and movement through the colder months. These etchings grew directly from that living edge and form part of a collaborative work of art and verse with Quentin Seddon, shaped by close looking, seasonality, and shared attention to the richness held in overlooked boundaries.