“Filled With Wonder Once Again” by Bill Fay from his album ‘Countless Branches’ out on Dead Oceans. deadoceans.com

I wanted to create a dreamy world that melted reality into abstraction, with a sense of wonder – of nature large and small; and that explored themes of cycles and phases – of the tree & planet more broadly.

Visually I was inspired by early botanical illustration, Japanese woodblock prints, macro photography and nature itself.

Process-wise, I combined analogue and digital: hand-drawing patterns and organic textures, and used coloured gels & photographic slides on overhead projectors to produce soft dappled washes of light.