Restricted View, Susan Eyre - the Stables Gallery, Dollis Hill

When Susan Eyre asked to take pictures of her friends' rubbish bins, they were a little alarmed.

But they need not have worried because it was all in the name of art... and unveiling nature as it should be.

Those pictures found their way into a collage which is part of Susan's new exhibit called Restricted View at The Stables Gallery in Dollis Hill.

Her work is a collection of two metre-high digital and silk screen pictures, in which she mixes and layers different images, such as rubbish and rock, one on top of another.

Mixed-media artist Susan, a recent graduate of Goldsmiths, said her aim is to make us think about what is happening during mundane tasks like taking out the rubbish, gardening or even strolling through the park.

She wants to show that the idea of real nature is far removed from urban life. It is this interest in the unkempt version of nature which led her to take pictures of Gladstone Park's wilder parts, the ones which haven't been neatly manicured and gardened.

The park images are part of a larger collage in which Eyre has cut out a peephole through which visitors can see a smaller recreation of what a "perfect" and romanticised version of the park would look like.

Susan said this is representative of the "constant search for paradise or an idealised nature, which then turns into a battle with nature".

Gardening becomes an effort to control the "naturalness" of the environment.

"We have this idea that we can control nature," said Susan, "But now there's parts that we see we can't control, such as global warming."

Her other work includes collages which depict the clash between the natural and unnatural by combining cityscapes with images of artificial plants and animals.

* 'Restricted View' is showing until Sunday, July 13, at The Stables Gallery and Arts Centre in Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill Lane, Dollis Hill. Call 020 8452 8655 or visit www.susaneyre.co.uk .