Walking My Dog

Fascinated by what washes up by the tides, I decided to collect every piece of plastic that I came across on a half hour walk along the beach with my dog. The colourful collection of everyday and bizarre items illustrates the unseen issue of plastic pollution. You have to look hard to discover the bottle tops and small bits and pieces as they nestle in between the pebbles out of sight. Beach-combing is a way of studying the natural and the artificial gems that the sea deposits on the beach and intertidal zone, usually the comber is searching for things of value, interest or utility. For me a chance to make sense of our relationship with our ocean.

Message In the Waves

This is a powerful BBC documentary that highlights the issue of the deterioration of our oceans. Plastics are a huge issue and sea life is being choked by the shear volume of waste that is discarded every year into our oceans. Plastic is degraded by the sun into small particles similar in size to plankton, which sea life ecosystems are mistaking for food causing devastating affects.