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Journey to Granada
Red soils and green-grey foliage. Rugged, vertical, thrusting hillsides planted with olives, surrounded by rearing rocks, dehydrated and breathless.
Timeless gardens conjured around calm pools, encircled by forests of columns, tortured and twisting, creating a staggered ceiling canopy as our eyes are drawn heavenward.
Low Tide, Mud Flats
Powerful, pulling, receding water, carving deep wounds in choking mud.
Marooned lifeless boats, like stranded fish with gaping mouths, lie tethered to poles that once were a safe water channel marker.
Tall totem poles of wharves that shortly will be fully submerged.
River to Sea
Clear crisp greens that fade to blue.
Serpentine spitting and twisting and slithering over sandbars, rocks, and crustaceans like eroded soil.
Slowly connecting a wetland of marshes and tufted grass islands, like a wide spreading cloak of greens and blacks, that has been pierced by skeletal trees.
Still slithering under the cloak towards the sea, where the fresh waters are consumed by voluminous salty waves.
Land Meets Sea
Like a matador dance, an abrasive charge... a line has been crossed. The transcient force of nature.
Quiet waters insidiously depositing sands, whilst shifting coastal dunes meet wild seas like a game of leapfrog.
Coastal life habitats are the victims of this battle.
Shredded Coast
During World War 2, the Nazi occupation built the “Atlantic Wall”, running the entire length of the country to defend against Allied sea invasion.
Massive cement barricades and huge gun emplacements stand as reminders that refuse to be buried. Abandoned shipping bleeds rust into the sand as they slowly disintegrate.
Tidal Patterns, Relief Studies
Studies on watercolour paper.
Each piece is made in relief with recycled card, acrylic paint and cotton thread.
Over the Hills and Far Away
As the visible signs of coastal erosion, from rising sea levels and climate change, dig deeply into the shore line the slow annihilation of a once familiar landscape is evident.
Shifting sands swallow the coastal forests and summer heat brings devastation with fires.
