The book I decided to study was by Jessica Warboys, called “Hill of dreams”. This book marks the launch of Warboys’ new film ‘Hill of dreams’ and the process she has gone through to create it. Warboys’ film is influenced by her own personal and collective memories which she portrays through a wide range of media including performance, film, sculpture and painting.

However, the book mainly focuses on Warboys landscape scenes and the various techniques she used to make her work unique, such as “combining her painting materials with natural elements, such as water of the sun, and applying pigment directly onto large-scale canvases before submerging them into the sea and allowing the waves to distribute the colour”.

Warboys’ uses the film to tell her own personal memories through a third person account, as “Hill of dreams” follows a man through landscapes natural and painted, which is located in the hills of Caerleon near the River Usk. I believe that Warboys’ is directing this film to a contemporary audience due to her use of mixed medias and to all ages, as exploration and nature enlivens everyone to see the world.

I found the structure of the book very intriguing because the first 40 pages are photographs of her landscape scenes, performances and paintings, which she has warily considered the compositions, allowing the reader to focus on each specific piece and create their own stories, before reading the artists biography on engaging with the landscapes and their embedded histories.

Ekardt, P, (2016), Hill of dreams: Jessica Warboys. London: St Ives, Tate Publishing