Prints - Norfolk
Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk was my childhood holiday destination, and a place I now return to with my own children. I still have drawings I made on that beach in the 1980s, small glimpses into what has and has not endured.
This is a dynamic shoreline, constantly reshaped by wind and sea: forces that frequently work against human efforts to manage and contain them. The tension between the natural and the human-made is palpable in the changing shoreline and reclaimed farmland still dotted with wind pumps.
The acidic dunes at Winterton are internationally important for a remarkable range of rare species, and there is a quality to this landscape that quietly insists on its own terms; a place where humans feel unmistakably like visitors.
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Sketchbook Images
Images from sketchbooks filled over many years, including the earliest drawing I can find, made around 1987/88 when I was eight or nine years old.
Looking back at that picture, I was struck by details I had entirely forgotten: two large posts on the beach, topped with neon red rectangles marking the no-swim zone, and the remnants of a concrete wartime structure that has long since disappeared. The beach and seabed profile has changed considerably since then, and these things went with it; quietly erased by the same forces that continue to reshape this shoreline today.
I also remembered the summer that picture was made: an almost permanent pool had formed between the groynes, topped up by each high tide and warmed daily by the sun. It was, in the way only childhood places can be, a kind of heaven.
It is this layering of memory; personal, incidental, accumulated over a lifetime, that feeds into how I respond to, experience and research this landscape.
