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Tag Archives: saltmarsh
A ‘Solway Patchwork’
Over the past year I have created a visual patchwork of stories from the shores of the Upper Solway: a different way of representing some of the inhabitants of our saltmarshes and shore pools. Here too are the ghosts of … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, art and science, Found Objects, mud-shrimps, mudflats, Sabellaria, honeycomb worm, saltmarshes, seaweeds, tidelines
Tagged collagraph, cyanotype, macroalgae, mermaids purses, pressed seaweeds, rock pools, saltmarsh, tidelines
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The fog and the froth
Diffuse, pale light glimmers and shifts with the fog above Skinburness saltmarsh. Two crows call harshly and fly swiftly towards a broad-winged shape, a buzzard, who slants his wings and flaps away, fading and disappearing into the whiteness. Along the … Continue reading
Posted in mud-shrimps, mudflats, saltmarshes
Tagged Fog, saltmarsh, samphire
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Solway Shore-walker 