Through subtle abstractions garrard charts energetic and psychic states and their impact on and interaction with the physical plane. The paintings reveal inner structures of the external world: rocks, personally collected by the artist, are hand-ground and applied to raw linen canvas through a process of fine layering to create translucent washes of colour. The canvas becomes a physical register of place, a palimpsest of past experiences and a portal to the metaphysical landscape of memory.