Bird Mapping

An abstract extension to Shift - an observation of flock movements. As the tide recedes, the landscape is marked, first, by water ebb through the silt and mud then, over-scribed by flight arcs of the estuarine birds.

The energy lines of both are Transient: only to be lost when the tide turns again.

Shift

Bird movement is imitated with inked lines of cord, swirled and dropped onto the paper. A three layer print starting with a monotype drawing on stainless steel.

Small flocks of birds – gulls, oystercatchers, redshank - gather over the river. Suddenly they move, en masse: triggered by a predator, a sharp noise, a feeding opportunity.

The intention, to capture their flight from muddy shoreline to the opposite bank and then to midstream, a visual mark-making.

Timelines

Plastic pollution is becoming part of the landscape and humans often inured to its impact.

Nature takes man-made detritus, erodes, softens, etches, melding into the immediate landscape.

Found objects are brought in by the tidal rhythm, already marked by the watery landscape in which they have been left.

A vivid discomfort, juxtaposing man-made in nature, stimulating debate and interest

Found objects and ink on paper

Marginal (i) and (ii)

The interface of water with land - full, dark, rich

and inky - each headland undercut by tidal erosion, blurred by lack of light in the overhang.

Pines with spring catkins, the tracery of deciduous trees, chiaroscuro defining the margins for both.

Ink & Charcoal on Japanese Bunkoshi paper

Plastic Gyre & Bobbing Along

Broken particles of man-made waste are dispersed through water, gently settling into natural gyres, imitating mathematical patterns found in nature.

Plastic particles become shells, swirls, geological strata; layers of packaging feign seaweed.

Ethereal Estuarine Shrimp float around, their many legs waving in the flow….