I’ve made three new weavings for the “Green Fires” online exhibition, curated by the Violet Hour. Participating artists include: Joe Bucklow, Harry Cartwright, Perienne Christian, Clare Dudeney, Bobbye Fermie, Sarah Garvey, Beatrice Hasell-McCosh, Chloe Hughes, Antonia Jackson, Katherine Jones, Jack McGarrity, Suzy Moxhay, Kemi Onabule, Rosa Roberts, Luke Silva, Julie-Ann Simpson and Jane Ward.

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The show is inspired by a poem:

The Enkindled Spring

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,

Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,

Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between

Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration

Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze

Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,

Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

And I, what fountain of fire am I among

This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed

About like a shadow buffeted in the throng

Of flames, a shadow that's gone astray, and is lost.

— D. H. LAWRENCE