Tamsin Loxley (b. 1970) is a land-based artist whose practice sits alongside a regenerative farming project on a 34-acre site in Devon, where the site's increasing wilderness and agroecological practices shape her work, and her work in turn deepens her understanding of the land and its future. The result is an ongoing, diaristic land archive: a close attention to our unseen relationship with soil, land and nature, and to how the decisions we make become part of the landscape's memory.
Knowledge gathering and experimentation guide her approach. She photographs the land monthly, keeping a visual and written diary, and makes her own materials — ink from oak galls, charcoal from willow, birch and bone, and plants, wool and soil gathered from the site. Unpredictable and alive, these materials carry the essence of place and continue to change over time.
Though often abstract, the resulting work evokes land and landscape, light and dark, echoing one particular place while remaining reminiscent of many. It reflects the passing of time and our continued connection to the earth that sustains us.
"The unseen world that resides under our feet. Soil has the greatest biodiversity on the planet, with over 10 billion organisms in a single gram. Rocks are part of this system. These prints represent an entire ecosystem, a world of complexity, an ancient history, a part of who we are."
Loxley studied on the MA Print course at the Royal College of Art, London, supported by a Leverhulme Trust Scholarship, and was awarded the RCA Graduate Award and the Rosemary Simmons Stone Lithography Prize, alongside which she undertook a stone lithography residency (2025). She has been Maker in Residence for the Society of Antiquaries' Charter of the Forest project, and is a recipient of the Travers Smith CSR Art Programme. Her work has been shown at the RCA Summer Show, Battersea; Southwark Park Galleries; Safehouse, Peckham; Morley Gallery; and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
As Loxley puts it: in the end, we are all earth.
