Marshlands Collection
Big skies, flat lands, far horizons…a myriad of inlets and creeks. The north Norfolk coastline is a favourite place of mine. Not only does the landscape imbue a sense of space; there comes with it a sense of freedom that never fails to lift my spirits. The tidal nature of the marshes carries untold stories of lives lived on the edge. Often, we see only traces; footprints in the mud, trails criss-crossing, unseen. This collection endeavours to capture the nature, the essence of the landscape; to capture that sense of space, but to also incorporate the elements and traces that make the area so special to me…
'...this corner of England which once it holds your heart is more lovely than any place on earth. Beautiful with a hint of secrecy which haunts it, as the memory of a dark and tender sadness clouds the brilliance of a summer day.'
Lilias Rider Haggard (Norfolk Notebook)
Marshlands Collection
"This is Norfolk," he [John Crow] said to himself; and in that intense, indrawn silence some old atavistic affiliation with fen-ditches and fen-water and fen-peat tugged at his soul and pulled it earthward.'
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys