Touch Stone - Touch Wood
30 March - 11 April 2021

To touch stone is to run one’s fingers over the passage of millennia.

To run ones fingers over the grains of a large piece of hardwood is to feel the passage of a century in the palm of your hand.


Canadian-born artist Margaret Higginson gives a voice to the natural materials she works with.

Blind to what is hidden within Margaret works like an archaeologist carefully uncovering the beauty inside.

A seam of quartz buried within a block of granite the mark of intense heat marking a collapsing mountain.

A stain of red in a slab of sandstone the result of a winter’s flood washing surface soil out to sea.

A fossil pointing a finger at a long forgotten ocean.

To catch daylight through fine alabaster is to remember its former use in the windows of medieval churches.

The history of our planet written in stone.


Margaret Higginson has also been exploring the soul of wood through this pandemic.

She has found two, or even three trees, growing so close that eventually, like lovers, they become one.

In a sign of our times nature’s power is shown in a piece of wood that has grown completely around a plastic rope tied around it: ‘Tied Forever.
Mankind and nature.

There has been time to reflect on who we are and where we fit into nature.

The blackened tree shapes’ Charred Trees’ are made from wax and metal.

Are these a reminder of the great fires in Australia?

Or of dead plant matter under pressure over millions of years turning into anthracite?


Through her work Margaret Higginson makes us question our relationship with nature while highlighting its majestic beauty.

For contact details and to find out more about Margaret’s work please click on the links below:

Margaret Higginson
APT Studios
6 Creekside SE8 4SA
www.margarethigginson.com
instagram - Margarethigginson