Since early times people living and working in coastal areas have ordered their lives around the ebb and flow of the tide. Working patterns of inhabitants were repeated daily but shifted relative to the tidal cycle.

Apflód is Anglo Saxon for low tide and Héahflód means high tide. The titles suggest the unceasing rise and fall of the sea from the past to the present.

The cloth of both works has been bark tanned for preservation using locally collected oak bark. The cloth is boiled and then soaked in an oak bark liquor for several days to allow the tannins in the bark to penetrate the cloth in order to preserve it.

Apflód and Héahflód reflect my experience of the ever-changing tidal movements amongst the creeks and saltings of the North Norfolk coast.