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 2024Holdfast, weaving made with Nursehound shark egg-case tendrils as warp thread, and small-spotted catshark egg-case tendrils as weft yarn. |  2024Exhibition showing through the month of August. |  2024Ripples. Small-spotted catshark egg-case tendrils tense and create a seascape of moving water. |
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 2024Wave study. Small-spotted catshark egg-case tendrils and silk. |
 2022The most colourful grey shingle beach in the world (Portwrinkle). |  2022Sharkyarn. Two metres of yarn persuaded from the tendrils of small-spotted catshark egg cases. |  2022Mermaid's purse tendrils, woven and shining like sunlight on sea. |
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 2021Hell's Mouth, Cornwall. View from the clifftop, hook from nearby Portreath. |  2021Shoreline at Portwrinkle, Cornwall. |  2021Solva, Wales. |
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 2020Portwrinkle harbour, Cornwall. |  2020Dunraven Bay, Wales. |  2020Rame Head from Freathy, Cornwall. |
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 2018Whitsand Bay. Runnels of water in the sand, three dimensional white horses. |  2018Dungeness by torchlight. Night walk to the shore, torchlight casting its glow on the moment where sea meets land. |  2018Lyme Regis. Early evening, pearlescent sky casting pink reflections onto the sea. |
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 2018Ramsgate. Mechanical white horse described by a driftwood pencil. |  Periwinkles at PortwrinkleThese shells glow like E.T.'s finger against the grey shingle of the beach. |
 2017Portwrinkle (iii). This piece uses mohair and silver thread crocheted to create a seascape. The individual fibres of the yarn fill the gaps between the stitches, creating a series of unique shadings in what is otherwise a fairly regular pattern. |
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 2016Bradwell-on-Sea (i). Shells crunching underfoot, waves lapping at a shoreline's undulating shadows. |  2016Bradwell-on-Sea (ii). This piece uses a gradient yarn and the slip stitch style of crochet to create a seascape. This small scrap of driftwood - merely two inches long, was one of only two pieces I found on a visit to Bradwell-on-Sea. As the day faded the sun turned the sea a peachy silver, a sliver of which this hook was able to describe. |  2016Rhossili, Wales. Sparkling sun making the sea shine, sleek wet sand at the shoreline gradually becoming dry and soft. |
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 2016Portwrinkle, Cornwall (i). Grey shingle, curiously green and purple rocks, the cold blue sea of a winter day. |  2016Portwrinkle, Cornwall (ii). This piece uses a number of different yarns and the Tunisian style of crochet to create a seascape. It is as much about the weather as it is the sea; visiting the beach in a storm, trying to see the sea through mist and rain, picking out the rocks and the outcrop of land along the next bay. Stubbornly finding moments of colour through the clouds. |
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