dready ‘unda de sea’ – 30×30 – original commission part of a triptych

the environment is very important to us all at the moment, it is constantly in our minds …

some of us as a rubber stamp to our lives, some from a more active path and some because they don’t believe it’s an issue at all …

And here, because we live where we do and where this commission is hung, the marine environment is a big thing deal, it is part of our history, part of every day …

you can’t escape the sea here, you are never more than a few hundred feet from it … our motto is ‘he hath founded it upon the sea’, and all you have to do is walk on the beach to see the plastic waste …

and if you have a memory, and even then memory is clouded by shifting baselines, you can remember the coral in george town and the quantity of fish that once filled the sea there …

baselines …