Current work is inspired by an old nautical term, ‘the offing’ that describes a visible space between the shoreline and the sea horizon. The series centres on various sites around the North Norfolk coast where visible physical structures and phenomena are present between the high tide mark and the horizon.

Working in mixed media, the vulnerability of the Norfolk coastline is explored through incorporating fragile materials and physical, sometimes destructive processes.
Utilising the images’ frame, this too becomes implicit with meaning; soot sits on the outer glass surface (as opposed to being protected by it); or layers of glass are held under tension within the frame by a barely visible object.

Graphite drawings on paper are screwed up, twisted, wrung and unfurled, transforming it into a pliable form which can suggest perhaps a flag, a husk or maybe a skin.

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