Landscape artist and writer
I like to work intensely on a specific subject. Spending years moving around a place, whether it’s one field or a 50 mile long footpath. Looking and drawing, looking and drawing over and over again. Saturating myself in the local colours, the repeating shapes, the flora and fauna, the weather, the moon, sounds and smells of a particular landscape.
WINNER East Anglian Book Awards non-fiction prize.
The category judge, Yin Lim, shared her reason for the decision - “I was captivated by this diary account of an artist seeking to draw the full moon rise, which led to a two-year journey of awe and wonder as she learns to see the world around her in a different light: moon light. In the process, Falcon gains a better understanding about the moon, the night sky as well as her own place on this Earth. This book is a celebration of the natural world through immersion, with lyrical, fragmentary writing that brings the reader very much in the moment with the author as she watches, discovers and connects with the colours, patterns and shapes of the sky and the sounds and smells of rural Norfolk, from a nearby farm harvesting potatoes and sugar beets to the owl hooting in the dark.”
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Latest Project - Sugar Beet Moon
An Artist’s Study of the Sky
Diary of a moon gazer. Record of a night draw-er. Observations from planet Earth.
With texts by Andrew Lambirth and Dr Dan Self
About Tor
I see myself as an explorer. Obviously not in the heroic, man-against-the-odds sort of way, but in everyday looking, really looking, at what’s around you sort of way.
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Many thanks to Charlotte Sinclair for her words and Kent Andresen for his photographs of my moon drawing project (including my star gazing bed!), for the Weekend Financial Times, Sept 15th.
