VISION OF AN ESTUARY

Vision of an Estuary is a new body of work that explores the visual language of an estuary where I live... a silent meditation on the experience of being in landscape. 
A thousand years ago a Carmelite friary was built on its banks, a busy hub with strong links to two nearby churches and the village just upstream. Ships of reasonable size came and went, bringing all manner of 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, 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 familiar contours, the imagination is fired 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 own 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 does away with the need for information and provides a silent juxtaposition of images that set you on your own 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.


-FOUR ALBUMS

-PLAY THE GAME.
Its an online book really... but you are in control of the layout. 

-YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE GAME

-OPEN STUDIO
    See the albums and original work
  Now until December 31st. Norfolk.
    -BOOK HERE 

Vision of an Estuary can be experienced in 2 different ways

• Four albums that juxtapose photographs, drawings, paintings and reliefs, taking you on a visual journey downstream from the springs, through villages, over meadows, the creeks and out to sea. 
• An online game where you pass through the landscape finding and saving pairs of work for yourself.