marine life
2024 koi
2019 tidal pools
2018
oysters
2016 fish
2015 salt flats
2013 tidal pools
2011 oysters
2019 tidal pool / collecting fossils from loose material, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / the importance of limestone, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / ....where the trunks once stood, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / a walk across an ancient sea-scape, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / a volcanic hell hole, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / changing global sea-levels due to an ancient ice age, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / a great place to find fossils, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / the lycopod forests have left a series of ‘potholes’, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / trace fossils are the burrows, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / this new land was colonised by lycopod forests, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / from the carboniferous period, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / tidal pool 320 million years old, 50 × 50 cm
2019 tidal pool / when Scotland was located just south of the Equator…., 50 × 50 cm
Barns Ness, Scotland
2019 tidal pools
inspiration & susan’s photography
The sea and especially the phenomenon of high tide and low tide, have fascinated many poets and writers in the past, varying from Sophocles on the Aegean to Matthew Arnold on Dover Beach. There is one particular aspect connected with ebb and flow that has fascinated myself and has become a source of inspiration for my art of ink painting in the past few years: the outgoing tide leaves wonderful small pools, full of lively creatures and colours, on the beaches, which disappear altogether again as soon as the tide comes in. This exciting phenomenon reminds me of our own lives and relatively short existence on earth; it inspires me to fully enjoy all the wonderful and colourful aspects that life may have in store for us while it lasts.