Joya: AiR / Isobel Panatti-Reeve / MA Painting / Manchester School of Art Postgraduate Residency

‘I came to Joya: AiR with no plan of what I wanted to create, other than to expand my artistic practice by experimenting in a landscape completely new to me.

With walking being a huge part of my existing practice, I spent much of my time exploring the rugged landscape close to the house, making close friends with a cat named Nippy and immersing myself in a living environment I had never experienced before.

After an early morning walk to the top of one of the surrounding mountains, I became inspired to cyanotype print onto rocks, roofing tiles, wood and stray bits of pottery around the hills. My main practice involves a lot of analogue photography experimentation, and delving back into cyanotypes was a refreshing experience especially on new surfaces.

After realising I couldn't bring the larger pieces back with me I decided to put them back into the landscape, in the dried out river beds and rock falls surrounding me, giving my work back to the landscape I had taken it from.

My time at Joya: AiR has been refreshing, invigorating and eye opening, it is certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience both a different type of living and a different way of creating’.

Isobel Panatti-Reeve

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Simon Beckmann28 March 2023Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University