What Remains After We Pass

“What Remains After We Pass” is an allegory about the environmental and ecological damage we are wreaking upon the planet, from the dropped litter, to the wholesale destruction of ecosystems. The granite in the wall represents the lasting resilience of the planet, which was here long before, and will remain long after, our destructive species has passed

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Our Shadow Sides

“Our Shadow Sides” represents the shadowy anonymous people, who troll on the social media platforms, with incredible and cruel posts. Societies and individuals have a dark side. This facet of human nature has also been gaining credence in the extremes of nationalist politics

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Watching Continents Drift

“Watching Continents Drift” considers our increasing knowledge of political, social, and economic divides across the globe. Perversely, despite increasing access to all this information, 24 hours a day, it only deepens our sense of being powerless observers

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Wave Patterns 1

Hope Cove, South Devon after a March Storm, with summer and winter activities in the day and at night. The arch is the entry to another place and another time.

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Hope Cove, South Devon after a March Storm, with summer and winter activities in the day and at night. The arch is the entry to another place and another time.

Wave Patterns 1 Detail

Hope Cove, South Devon after a March Storm, with summer and winter activities in the day and at night. The arch is the entry to another place and another time.

Two Crows 60x40cm

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Turnstones 40x40cm

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Windblown Egret 40x40cm

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Barchi di Migranti 40 x 40cm

Barchi di Migranti: is from a series of photos of burnt out migrant boats in Sicilly, a traumatic and sometimes unwanted arrival of others. At first glance there appears to be people walking across the desert, yet it is a Sunday morning on a Dorset beach.

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Arriving and Degrading 40 x 40 cm

Arriving and Degrading: loosely follows a theme of human activity in the South West of England. Within this piece are images of Napoleonic fort iron door, the lost mining industry, the reduced fishing industry and reduced fish stocks, often replaced by shoals of tourists.

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Turn to Stone 40 x 40 cm

Turn to Stone: is the arrival of rocks on the earth’s surface after the passage of eons of time, and the shaping of these rocks. This is older than human history, yet humans having memories within those rocks of travel and nature.

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Time and Tide Tarry for None 40x40 cm

Time and Tide Tarry for None: is the overarching theme that any arrivals can only be measured in time, which is considered to flow like a river. In days when much travel and trade was around our coast, arrival times were constrained by the tides.

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Dark Enchantment 40x50cm

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Harvest and Atrophy 40x50cm

This series of three represents the progression of autumnal decay, with each one focusing upon how we might observe the progressive changes during autumn. This second image focuses upon the fleeting bounty of the harvest that will decay so quickly

Water and Light 40x50cm

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Boatyard Dreams

A boatyard door in Island Street, Salcombe. If a building could hold the dreams of boat owners and dreamers?

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Boatyard Dreams Kingfisher

Boatyard Dreams Door

Boatyard Dreams Boat

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Boatyard Dreams Leaves

Boatyard Dreams Pine

Boatyard Dreams Trees

Boatyard Dreams Sailingboat

Boatyard Dreams Egret

Boatyard Dreams Jellyfish

Boatyard Dreams Fishing gear

Camembert Dreams

Eating induces sleep, cheese gives us more vivid dreams. Dreams are the product of our unfettered thoughts, at the time they feel like reality.

Dreams of Seasons

My dreams of England across the seasons. Imagined during a prolonged period of isolation in hospital.

Littoral Love

Dreams of people, places and love. Based on the Yorkshire coast, looking down on, and looking across to, Staithes

Messenger

My entry into the MOMA Machynlleth open art exhibition based on the imagery of a modern welsh narrative poem - The Messenger