I live on an estuary... no... hold on.

A thousand years ago a Carmelite friary was built on the shore of this small estuary in Eastern England.

It was a busy hub with strong links to two nearby churches and the village just upstream. Ships of reasonable size came and went, bringing commerce and life to the broad expanse of water that must at all stages of the tide have been a lagoon of thriving activity, all at a time when the world was lit only by fire.

The thing is, it is no longer an estuary and hasn't been for centuries, not since the sea defences were built and shored it all up. So as with many landscapes, it is now somewhere to look for clues as to how you might read the place. 

Walking the gentle contours, the imagination gets fired up by broken fragments of history. I can hazard a guess what it might have been like to sail into the estuary from the sea early one morning, or to be rowed across that lagoon on a busy Saturday morning but these quickly become just stories, my own narratives that say as much about my limitations as about anything else.

I would need even more words to give you the real flavour of it all. Which would be to miss the point. 

Vision of an Estuary is a body of work that uses four practices of photography, watercolour, pen and ink and relief to turn over ideas about this landscape as it might have been and how it is. The juxtaposition of these pieces provides a coming together of the basic elements of landscape that set you on your a journey up and down the estuary, finding your own patterns and clues to what the place might be.... a silent evocation on the experience of being in landscape.

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