In their personal capacities, Pauline has been exploring the intricate map of mycelial networks through photography, etching, and drawing; and Mike has been working primarily in photoshop to create abstract digital artworks that are sometimes delicate, sometimes filled with intensity – but always filled with movement and beauty, influenced by the magic of clouds, trees rustling in the wind, and the reflective surfaces of water.

Through this collaborative process they have been working with ever-morphing, abstracted, images- both digital and handmade, and seeing how these can be further manipulated through layering and experimenting with various materials.

They embrace not being restricted by space, and having a space where mess is the process, and the mess is the outcome. They work with fluid, moving and melting materials; that merge, repel each other and make each other disappear – the experience is tactile and engages with the senses in real-time.

Mike sums up the experience well saying that it is about ‘’what is in your head and heart, being expressed on paper’’. More than anything their process has no set outcomes, but rather a focus on materiality and process.

The result is an intense multi layered collection of work, always retaining a combination of natural symbols with manmade pattern. These works have the potential to spill off the page, out of the computer screen and onto swathes of fabric that engulf a person, trying to capture the feeling of plunging into a copper version of a black hole, a swirling rainbow of colours and movement.