Born from a sustained engagement with stillness, subtler and subtler still traces the shifting terrain between perception and presence. Rather than describing fixed experiences, these works attend to the quiet thresholds where sensation, memory and awareness begin to dissolve into one another.

Working across painting and ceramic sculpture, Northwood continues an intuitive process that embraces uncertainty and emergence. Each work unfolds through sustained attention, allowing gesture, material and rhythm to reveal themselves over time. The resulting forms inhabit a space between the tangible and the intangible, inviting contemplation rather than resolution.

This body of work reflects an ongoing inquiry into altered modes of perception and the unseen structures that shape experience. Through repetition, silence and the accumulation of subtle marks, the works suggest consciousness as something fluid—less a destination than a continual process of becoming.