Rising Tide

Framed in Kiaat wood

“In a time of rising sea levels and over-fishing, the deep ocean seems to be reaching out to us. Perhaps its call is a subconscious echo from our evolutionary past that has finally been heard as ocean activists and marine biologists rally to protect this last great mystery of our Earth’s biology. 

Rising Tide and Echoes from the Deep are both monotype prints created using printing ink on Japanese washi paper. A monotype is a singular painterly print derived from a worked printing surface with the final image impressed onto paper by etching press. Both these works derive their colours and forms from my own personal love of the ocean. 

Rising Tide considers the glistening micro-organisms that thrive in a perpetually fluctuating world. The rising and falling tide could be compared to breathing, a rhythmic intake and release that defines the lives of ocean creatures and describes our coastline in subtly changing ways."