Seaplate Etchings. The sea writes slowly. Through immersion, copper becomes a surface of negotiation, where tide, salt and sediment inscribe a history. Verdigris blooms like tidal algae, corrosion maps unseen currents, and the metal carries the residue of an estuary in perpetual transition. These works are less images of the Essex coast than fragments of it; surfaces shaped by the same forces that erode its mud, and marsh, and redraw its edge with every tide. They are quiet records of duration, surrender and the unstable boundary between material and landscape.

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The Mouth of the Blackwater was created where the River Blackwater meets the North Sea. Submerged beneath the shallow tide, the copper records the movement of saltwater across the oozing mudflats. The work captures the estuary as a place of continual
Cattle Cut was created at low tide on the foreshore of Cudmore Grove, Mersea Island. The work takes its name from the lost creek known as Cumber Gut (formerly Cattle Creek), a channel gradually erased through coastal erosion and changes in agricultur
Blockhouses was created on the foreshore beside the remains of the Tudor Blockhouse Fort on Mersea Island, Essex.
Splatures Ground was created on the foreshore of Cudmore Grove, Mersea Island, walking out from a fallen Second World War pillbox whose cliff-top foundations have long since been claimed by coastal erosion. The title refers to splatures—snowshoe-like
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