Rachel Demuth’s practice is based in the Bath area and her body of research explores the precarious plight of our native trees in the landscape, in particular and most recently the Ash.

She uses a variety of clays to build tall, totem-like memorials to the diseased and dying trees, stacking rings of hand-moulded, fired rings of clay into tall steles of various heights.

Each ring is individual in the way in which Rachel creates it, and some are glazed with wood ash from the stricken trees.