Category Archives: Tidelines

022 – Cogden again

022 - Cogden again. Collage by David Smith

022 – Cogden again
Paper, wave-battered aluminium, found fishing tackle and watercolour 290mm x 210mm

Really struggled with the photography on this one. I must upgrade my Photoshop skills. This piece features a wave-battered aluminium can fragment and discarded fishing tackle found today on Hive and Cogden Beaches, the next ones along from the beaches featured in the ITV drama Broadchurch .

021 – on Cogden Beach

021 - on Cogden Beach. Collage by David Smith

021 – on Cogden Beach
Paper, sea-battered aluminium and watercolour 152mm x 229mm

This is associated with the Tidelines project that I am working on. The aluminium can base was found on Cogden Beach on the beautiful Jurassic coast just along from where the TV series Broadchurch was filmed. I have been looking for a place to use it. I am really pleased with the way this piece turned out and it has spurred me on to experiment further in some of the larger pieces I am working on.

020 – ready if it comes

020 - ready if it comes. Collage by David Smith

020 – ready if it comes
Paper and found fishing line 229mm x 152mm

This relates to my Tidelines project and the beaches at Cuckmere Haven and Shingle Street

016 – no pictures for Marian

016 - no pictures for Marian. Abstract collage by David Smith

016 – no pictures for Marian
Paper, foil, watercolour and ink 152mm x 228mm

This is for my friend Marian who doesn’t like pictures in my collages. This is informed by my Tidelines project, particularly the Jurassic Coast, dark cliffs, landslides, tidelines and jewels along the bay. Marian says she cannot stop her paintings looking like landscapes. I understand because the landscape almost always influences the marks I make.

I struggled more than usual with this one and, though I am not totally happy with the result, I am delighted with the ideas that sprang from that battle.