Three works were made on location — ink diluted with salt water collected from the same bay, worked directly onto paper with charcoal. The sea water became part of the medium itself: as it dried within the ink, it left its own crystalline texture in every mark. The sea is not depicted in these works — it is physically present in them.

Two further works — Dormant and Abiding — were made in the studio from memory, in charcoal alone. The same landscape, approached differently: one immediate and physical, one recollected and distilled.

The titles — Rousing, Compulsion, Delirious, Dormant, Abiding — are not descriptions of the place but of the states it provokes. The seascape is harsh, elemental, indifferent. These are the responses it demands.