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"A collection of works started in 2017 and made predominantly by using the cyanotype process in collaboration with the coastal landscape. In common with many people who have lived their lives in close proximity to the sea, I experience a slight sense of claustrophobia when inland for more than a few days – a strange feeling that something isn’t quite right in my world – and I am drawn back to the coast. It has always been the littoral landscape that has inspired me most creatively and which I feel compelled to explore visually - those dynamic areas of coastline encompassing dune systems, the intertidal zone and the nearshore parts of the sea. A place where tides wash over layers of rocks laid down through the millennia, and where sands are re-sculpted daily by wind and wave. My home, at the tip of the Wirral peninsula in North West England, lies a stone’s throw from the shore. This part of the UK coastline is a place of shifting sands, estuarine mudflats and tidal islands. Wide, expansive beaches spread out for miles. From time to time the sea seems to disappear in the west. During a period of ‘creative block’ in 2016, I felt a strong need to explore a more direct, physical way of engaging with this littoral landscape. Time spent experimenting with cameraless techniques led me to the cyanotype process, one of the rawest forms of photographic alchemy. Translating the markings of light and time into shades of blue, its strong signature colour is evocative of the sea. The process is unpredictable - I have limited control over the strength of wave action and the intensity of the light – but perceived ‘failures’ have led to further experimentation. The dynamic of a print is changed by layering, collaging or embellishment; hues and pigments shift away from the traditional Prussian blue. The cyanotype process continues to simultaneously frustrate and confound, excite and reward, but within the limitations of the medium, I have found freedom and inspiration.
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Casebound
Thread Sewn
200mm x 245mm Portrait
Printed Cover with Foiling to Front Cover, Back Cover and Spine
80 Pages Fedrigoni Freelife Satin 170gsm
End Papers: Fedrigoni Sirio
FSC® Certified and Printed using 100% Renewable Energy By Wells Printing in Bath
