My work springs from the following concerns and ideas:

• The accumulation of memory through the imagery of geological sedimentation. The role of language in this process.
• Definitions of home and community, and the influence of landscape on identity.
• The containment of emotional processes so that they are visible but crystallised, even fossilised.
• The tenacity of lifeforms surviving in harsh environments.

The media I use are handmade and reclaimed/recycled paper, traditional bookbinding materials, found objects, image transfer, various surface treatments and text.

Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker, bookbinder and installation artist. She returned to the UK in 2007 after ten years in Chicago, where she graduated in 2005 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College. She was previously a jewellery designer/maker in Belfast and has also worked as a teacher of French and German. She has exhibited her artist's books, paper-based sculpture and installation work in the USA and the UK. She is the artist in residence at John Mason School in Abingdon (2008-2010) and also teaches art there.

View more work at Lucy's web site.