Description

I am a sculptor who enjoys working with paper. I like the possibilities it offers for innovation and my approach is one of experimentation. I look to the landscape around me for inspiration, searching for the narrative of our relationship to the world around us.

The landscapes Rachel Trezise describes in her book Fresh Apples struck a familiar chord. I instantly recognized in her descriptions the same bleakness encountered around my home where the effects of a fading economy mark places and can blight and narrow the lives of those who live there. Hers is a rather bleak, twenty-first century view, albeit tempered with humour and ambiguity. The hopes and aspirations of her characters are laid bare to expose their faults and weaknesses against the background of a post-industrial landscape. I read the stories over a period of about a week but I kept returning to her first story: the eponymous Fresh Apples.

A picture began to emerge of a young girl nestled in the bracken that clothes the hillsides above many Welsh towns and villages. She is at once a temptress yet wholly innocent, reflecting the ambiguities of Rachel’s story of adolescence in the South Wales valleys.

Lynne Bebb was born in Birkenhead. She haslived in South Wales for over forty years. She holds a First degree in Social Anthropology. She studied sculpture and took an MA in Art History. Her work is inspired by drawing, often relating to memory. She has developed drawing into print since joining Swansea Print Workshop.