‘Blue Coast’ explores themes of place and placemaking, drawing on abstracted landscapes that reference maps, mapping techniques, aerial photography, and scans of the North Sea seabed. Here, along the low-lying Norfolk coast, where rising sea levels are a stark reality, the work invites reflection on what now lies beneath the sea and what will one day become archaeology.
This multi-block woodcut and engraving, has been cut and printed using the reduction method, a technique that gradually removes sections of the block to build depth and complexity in the final composition.