Coast, a collection

I have been going through my sketchbooks and works over the last week, looking at the work I've done on the theme of 'Coast' over the last ten years.  I've been working on this theme for much, much longer, but en years seems far enough to go back.

I have picked out ten pieces that I feel give an overall view of the work, including several from my present sketchbook.

 
This piece dates to around 2005/6 and is waxed paper with found objects attached.  I still have this and it's companion piece as I liked them so much.

This piece is from 2007 and was one of my assessment pieces for my BTEC Fine Art Diploma.  I made several, some much smaller, and most have been sold.

This was painted in 2013.  It is one of a pair, and I love them both, and have them on my wall.

This is one of several I made in 2014, to sell at various exhibitions I was in that year.

I love making books.  This is one I made in 2014 from two full sheets of watercolour paper that were painted prior to cutting down for the book.

I made this book about a week ago, trying out different binding methods.  I plan to bind some of my waxed photographs into a book, together with other decorated and waxed papers.

This is one of my digitally altered photographs.  I like to print them out onto printmakers or watercolour paper, then dip them into natural beeswax.  It gives a lovely soft golden glow to them, as well as making them semi-transluscent.

These last photographs are all from my sketchbook, made over the last month or so.  The first is a collage of photographs, painted papers and inks.

I have then photographed and altered parts of the first collage, and developed it further.

This last is a stitched sample, inspired from the collage above.  I am trying to capture the meditative  feeling I have when walking along the beach in the early morning.  The repeating rhythm of the waves is very calming.