“No water, no life, no blue, no green” is a quote from the US Oceanic scientist,

Sylvia Earle who campaigns for the wellbeing of the world’s oceans. As an open

water swimmer, that imperative balance of our oceans health has become absolutely

apparent to me. Episodes of contaminating industrial and agriculture effluent and

plastics detritus that are polluting our seas, rivers and lakes have become a more

regular occurrence.

My response to Earle has prompted new sculptural work that calls attention to our delicate

oceanic environment whilst reflecting the sensuous experience of

being in open water. I am particularly interested in that space between the undersea

and the surface of the sea, the place that most interacts with light and weather

conditions.