This series forms part of an ongoing body of work with the broad umbrella title of ‘Redrawing the Landscape’.
Composed of photographs and sketchbook paintings and drawings from the last decade, examining coastal areas I am able to visit regularly and know well. Whether tourist spots or sites of post industrial heritage, our coasts - those liminal spaces between one realm and another - are fragile states, constantly in flux, often recording the presence and impact of humanity in a visual imprint. |
The work is site-specific, in that it is concerned specifically with the coastal environment of Dawlish Warren: a fascinating environment between the sea and the outer reaches of the South West Main Line, where coast, river estuary, sand dunes, nature reserve and funfair exist beside and inside each other. The coastal environment here is fragile and constantly in motion. Whilst I hesitate to use words such as “documenting” and “recording” in the conventional sense; nevertheless these works are a psychogeographical imprint of the passing of time in this place - quite literally the sands of time. I describe my work as visual archaeology: palimpsests of time, place and people and the impact of each upon the other, the traces left behind.
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