• Music makers
• Marvellous isolation
• Unfenced existence
• Mere verisimilitude
• Blind gloom
• Unruminative technicality
• A superstructure of ideas
• Spacious discovery
• Primitive promptings
• Lost hours
• Shared state
• Silently singing
• Indelible shadows
• Facile technique
• Art happens
• Circumstances of beauty
• Quiet forces
• Beyond thought
• Abstract category
• Interior life
• Undisturbed space
• The ordinary day
• The hunter’s trance
• Other eyes
• What the river says
• Contained location
• Subtle dimension
• The pure stone

(Golden Saxifrage, 2005)

Abstract category

Everything connects. I did not separate categories such as ‘plants’ and ‘landscape’. Indeed, plants often are the landscape. My choice of category avoids the need to distinguish between different aspects of the natural world, yet it is as arbitrary as any other.