Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.

I'm Leilaeinderts and I'm delighted to introduce this Found Sound for April, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.

For this year's Found Sounds, Alice travels across the UK to meet people inspired by

heritage crafts, folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.

This month, Alice meets artist Lucy May Scofield in her studio in rural Northumberland.

We hear about Lucy's water-based woodcut printing practice,

as well as her fascination with the passage of time,

our place in the cosmos and our relationship to the Earth.

Lucy's work is held in numerous collections, including Tate Britain, the Ashmolean Museum, and Yale Center for British Arts.

She is a founding member of the Moku Hanger Sisters Collective, an international group of artists who collaborate and exhibit together globally.

You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment, while you find somewhere warm and quiet,

to close your eyes, sit back and settle down into this month's found sound. So Lisi, can you introduce yourself and describe your practice? Yes, my name is Lucy May Schofield and I'm an artist, specialising in print making and expanded print, sometimes print performance.

The landscape has a huge influence on my practice.

So I live here in rural Northumberland, just within the National Park.

There are huge amounts of space to observe time shifting and the seasons changing.

And that feeds in directly to my practice as an artist.

I'm constantly inspired by the seasons, by the cosmos.

We're under a classified dark sky here.

So we get some phenomenal views of the Milky Way and the moon is always my constant

companion so she features a lot in the work that I make as well as the color blue that's a really

deep love affair with cyan indigo pr, Prussian blue.

Much of my work is a meditation on the tone of blue,

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