Tidal Trace Series
The coast has a very special place in my heart, I regularly visit my local beaches cold water swimming, beach combing and foraging. I spent many holidays as child looking into the glassy waters of rockpools, waiting in anticipation for tiny creatures to emerge from under the canopy of beautifully coloured seaweed and rocks.
I am fascinated by the complex nature of these precious little ecosystems and the resilience of the species that call these tidal pools home.
Despite their resilience, our rockpools and coast are under threat from rising sea levels and warming waters. Rockpools are sensitive to temperature changes and the acidity of warmer waters can kill shell life, which leaves me with a question, how much change can they take and will they survive it?
This series of work represents and symbolises the fragile state of our oceans and a call for us all to think about the delicate balance we currently face, whilst admiring the oceans beauty and wonder. For this series I have been foraging along the coast, finding dead Seaweeds and plants washed up on shore along with a variety of litter and plastics etc. I have crafted my findings into create plates, which I have then printed onto handmade recycled paper
These 3D layered collage forms are built on different levels replicating the depth of our beautiful rockpools. The tactile quality of raw pigments, delicate handmade paper, experimental cyanotype, foraged dead plants, collage papers and paper casting are precariously placed into fragile organic forms. These delicate works are an imprint and trace of place, where the past and present interplay; allowing us room to contemplate the future fragile state of our planet and the delicate balance and ever-changing nature of our coast and rockpools.
Regeneration
29.7cmx42cm
Collagraph printing, experimental Cyanotype, Collage and hand cut construction on Handmade Paper
In The Shallows
59.4cmx84.1cm
Collagraph printing, experimental Cyanotype, Collage and hand cut construction on Handmade Paper
Marine Trace
84.1cmx118.9cm
Experimental Cyanotype, paper casting, Collage and hand cut construction on Handmade Paper
Stay tunned, more works for this series are being crafted.
