Tanned linen, watercolour, wire, beeswax, linseed oil, 2025

The Imprint works look at marks left on the land by the sea – tide marks, wave cuts and spring lines.

Sketch book observation – Water watch

Flow.

Water covers the sand and mud and reworks the mounds and dips caused by the previous tide.

A fast-flowing spring tide makes big undulating marks.

A slow neap tide makes smaller textured marks.

Ebb.

Water drains down off the marsh and creates meandering spring lines in the sand and mud.

Splitting and dividing the branches become smaller as the water nears the channel.

The indents looks like fallen trees.

When the bed of the spring line is textured, it causes the water to ripple as it flows.

In the middle of the lunar cycle when the tides are small, the mud in the space between the tide lines dries out and cracks appear. In summer the hot sun widens further.