A companion sketch to one made of the sea at Dusk. The character of the open sea is fascinating to capture, the light endlessly changing.. ideal for watercolour. This study was probably taken some distance above the Doggerland.
The North Sea, Dawn.
Strange to imagine that in the Holocene, aurochs, woolly rhino and wild boar were passing unhindered around 25m under the keel of the ship. Now the sun plays on the purple waters.
Watercolour on paper, 59x42cm
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There is a character to the ocean, to the open sea itself, in its light and theatre, which simply cannot be captured in coastal waters. At the interplay of land and sea the shallower water has different wave heights and seems to hold colour differently. On a vessel in mid-sea hoewever, there is a novel theatricality to the whole setting which creates so many new and interesting challenges to the artist.
Stormwater (2015)
This small installation took many weeks of preparation. A glass vessel holds water from the Mersey collected during the Spring storms of 2015. The anger within is then cosseted in genuine Soay sheep yarn beautifully crocheted by Jean Emerson, and the whole bonded with a ruble and sealed by 1792 Liverpool conder token.
Stormwater is an atavistic piece which attempts to constrain something of the wildness that sculpts St Kilda still. I owe much to inspiration from Steve Dilworth here.
Glass, seawater, wood, wax and Soay wool (30x15x15cm)
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