Coastal Responses 3

      Work made on my return home             

My initial response was to work back into the carousel book we began from the objects we collected - in a much looser manner

Later I worked back into the book  developing images from the photographs

Costal Responses 2

Seascale and Whitehaven

Seascale in contrast to Ravenglas was much more barren with wide vistas. Although I carried on collecting there I found it less inspiring

Whitehaven Harbour

This town offered so much variety and contrast 

The subtlety of the colour and simplicity of shapes 

This was an accident when taking a panoramic shot but it creates a lovely composition

Costal Responses 1

Ravenglass

I had not expected to visit the sea or that the different places would be so contrasting. I only knew  Ravenglass  for the miniature railway I remember being taken to long ago. A wide variety of seascape in quite a small area, offering surprising beachcombing potential.

New Years Eve

I've been meaning to post some images of recent work

 for awhile and already its the end of the year.  

I want to celebrate with pieces that reflect

 the rediscovery of my identity.

 

These images explore current preoccupations 

and loosely refer to memory and childhood

Significant Summer Developments 3

At the end of the summer I went back to the family home and found a number of  old and worn Penguin books from the 1940s. They are in a fantastic dilapidated state.  I photographed the fronts, backs and spines, but was also attracted to the adverts in the back which has also begun to feature in my work alongside the newspaper bookmark from that period

More recently I bought  some penguin paperbacks from the same period on eBay,  I was disappointed to discover that the description promising very poor and torn  didn't quite live up to my expectations