Remember I said that I have started work on 4 images? Well this is image no.1, it is finished and it now has a name, “Bardsea”.

Bardsea is a beach on Morecambe Bay that has a few sections of salt marsh (although much of it is now becoming hidden under an invasive grass that has made its home along our coastline.)

This image is a section of wet beach, then a section of salt marsh, and then the sand of the bay… you follow the water channel until it blends into a thin line of sea, and then on into the sky. Sometimes in Morecambe Bay you see the blue sky reflected in the sea, and the sea looks lovely and blue. However quite often what you see instead, appears to be the sand, and the sandy water, reflected in the sky. This image comes from a day very much like that.

The image might look like a painting but it is actually a Monotype print, made up of several layers of printed watercolour. These layers build up on the paper surface to create the image. It can be quite an unpredictable process that leaves the artist no choice but to follow the random unexpected paths presented by the printing process.

This piece of work belongs firmly in the “Memory” project.

I would like to be able to share my art in a way that is affordable to most people, so I have successfully turned this image into a reproduction print which will allow me to offer it for sale at a low price point. I will come back to this subject in later posts.