I grew up with a beach just over my back fence, so have had a lifelong love for the coast.

This linocut is made using the reduction method where you carve away the areas that you have inked after printing that colour on all of the papers in the edition. I only doing small editions. This is just 10 papers.

The image combines two memories, of a seagull on Manly wharf a few weeks ago, and a flock of Terns that were on the Beach at Sandon River early December last year. The Terns were very skittish, would fly away if you approached too close.