Listen to Wendy Rose Heath:

These six images chart my journey through the loss of a dear friend. I was researching endangered species for this exhibition when she passed away.  I imagined she went to Florida where her parents lived for many years.  I imagined accompanying her, helping her on her way.  Ghost Orchid is endangered, in part, because the USA felled thousands of Bald Cypresses to build aircraft carriers during WW2.   It is the Bald Cypress in southern Florida and Cuba that is home to Ghost Orchid.

Wendy Rose Heath

Wendy Rose Heath works in collage, textile, painting and drawing. She is a New Writing North award winner (poetry) and the author of Radio Lent and Book of Greta Oak. She is interested in the ways in which text informs image. Recently two of her textile pieces from her body of work, In Celebration of the Divine Feminine were in the group show, Forbidden Fruit, at Water Street Gallery Todmorden. In collaboration with Joanne Cornwell, Heath made the film Mother Reindeer. It consists of her sonnet redoublet and collagraphs and Cornwell’s original musical compositions.

I ‘drew’ the images with scissors to make the plates and chose to blind print.