Seaside Art
The presence of the sea occurs in many of my prints, it is a common denominator. In this article under the name Coastal Art I describe the different ways in which the sea appears. Either in the form of panoramic landscapes, by coastal cities or in the countryside, and depicting the particular flora and fauna of each ecosystem.
I love the sea, I was brought up by the sea in Tarifa, a city in the South of Spain and currently I live in Brighton, a city in the South Coast of England. My residence is I just two minutes from the shore.
I don’t know if living by the sea was by choice, chance or a life necessity. But here I am, expressing in art this circumstance again and again, like the waves of the sea reaching the shore.
Seaside Art
The presence of the sea occurs in many of my prints, it is a common denominator. In this article under the name Coastal Art I describe the different ways in which the sea appears. Either in the form of panoramic landscapes, by coastal cities or in the countryside, and depicting the particular flora and fauna of each ecosystem.
I love the sea, I was brought up by the sea in Tarifa, a city in the South of Spain and currently I live in Brighton, a city in the South Coast of England. My residence is I just two minutes from the shore.
I don’t know if living by the sea was by choice, chance or a life necessity. But here I am, expressing in art this circumstance again and again, like the waves of the sea reaching the shore.
Coastal Art Prints
The sea appears in my art with different aspects so with a curatorial mind I have identify themes that enable me to show this work where the sea is present an orderly manner:
Coastal Town Art
Cities by the sea have a universal appeal. Cities by the sea are often fun and welcoming. As a paradox the sea might look like an impenetrable boundary, but it it in fact the most travelled channel that links distant cultures and countries.
Sea Print
White cliffs, marshes, deltas , estuaries and other natural landscapes by the sea
When the sea meets chalk land, the result is the formation of white cliffs that bounce and reflect light in incredible ways.
Through the years I have created numerous art prints that depicts different expressions of the natural landscapes of the coast:
Beach Art
This is where my Coastal Art gets personal as I chose in this series to depict people by the coast, spending their leisure time doing fun things. I am a keen sea swimmer and free diver. In the summer I swim in the sea everyday. In Brighton where I live, you will find all sort of activities happening at the seafront: funky Latin dance classes, the swing patrol swirling at the Bandstand, yoga, the famous Park Run at Hove seafront, rollerblading, yoga, paddle-boarding, surfing, kite surfing, kayaking and of course swimming and sunbathing and watching the world go by.
The Printmaking process
To complete one of my prints, I first create original ink drawings. With a lithographic mind I put together separate drawings that will make the textures, main outlines, lights and shades for the art print. These drawings are later overlapped and collaged digitally. I work with pigment fine liners, sandpaper and organic matter such as sponges and feathers.
My prints start as hand drawn monochrome ink drawings. These detailed black drawings bring structure and order. Later on, the addition of colour touches our souls where emotions dwell.
Coastal art print collection
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The Lad in the Bath and the Cat£40.00 – £310.00 -
South Downs Way Winter Walks£40.00 – £310.00 -
From Hope Gap to the Seven Sisters White Cliffs Spring£40.00 – £310.00 -
And then Spring South Downs Way£40.00 – £310.00 -
White Cliffs Hope Gap to to Seven Sisters£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Beach a Walk in the Rain Antique Ochre and Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Palace Pier from Marine Parade Ocean Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Pebble Beach Striped Deck Chairs Ocean Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Pebble Beach Striped Deck Chairs Antique Ochre and Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
A Greek Island – the Town the Sea and the Pines£40.00 – £310.00 -
Gateway to Seven Sisters White Cliffs Song£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Icon Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
A Stop along the South Downs Way the Seven Sisters from Birling Gap£192.00 -
Breezy Cuckmere Crying Seagulls£40.00 – £310.00 -
Cuckmere Haven Starlings£40.00 – £310.00 -
A Stop in the South Downs Way The Seven Sisters from Birling Gap£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Moon the the Seven Sisters from Birling Gap£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Full Moon the the Seven Sisters from Birling Gap£192.00 -
The Glorious Ascent to Cadair Idris with Jenni Mac£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Old Crab and the Bridge over the Mawddach to Barmouth from Arthog£40.00 – £310.00 -
Grapevines and Fig Trees Villa Biagio Saraceno Andrea Palladio£40.00 – £54.00 -
Renaissance Farmhouse Villa Biagio Saraceno Andrea Palladio£40.00 – £54.00 -
Renaissance Cartouche Villa Biagio Saraceno Andrea Palladio£40.00 – £54.00 -
Beacon Mill from Rottingdean Village to Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Village of Rottingdean Beacon Mill and the Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Eastbourne Promenade Walk to Holywell£40.00 – £310.00 -
Eastbourne Beach Bandstand and Pier from the Wish Tower£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beachy Head Green Gold Fields The Bench under Hawthorn Tree£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Path through the Flint Wall Down to Cuckmere Valley Green Gold Fields£40.00 – £310.00 -
Breezy Beachy Head White Chalk Soaring Cliffs£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beachy Head Lighthouse Chalk Cliffs Golden Fields of High Grass and the Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beachy Head Wild Meadows Chalk and Flint Cliffs and the Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Phoenix and Butterflies Chinoiserie Screen at Brighton Pavilion Gardens£40.00 – £310.00 -
Paper Toy Theatre West Pier Brighton by the Sea£18.00 -
New Steine Gardens Brighton Seaside Architecture Amber£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brunswick Place Brighton Architecture by the Sea Amber£40.00 – £310.00 -
Cuckmere Field Crimson£40.00 – £310.00 -
Gorse in Bloom Sea Seven Sisters South Downs Chalk and Flint Cliffs£40.00 – £310.00 -
Cuckmere Cottages Old Green Seven Sisters Cliffs£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beachy Head Hawthorn Bench Scarlett£40.00 – £310.00 -
Cold Water Swimming at Low Tide by the West Pier Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
Cycle at Low Tide by the West Pier Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starling Love Brighton Palace Pier£40.00 – £310.00 -
Palace Pier Lights Starling Murmuration£40.00 – £310.00 -
Gateway to Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs£40.00 – £310.00 -
Seven Sisters Walk Cuckmere Haven to Birling Gap Amber£40.00 – £310.00 -
Seven Sisters Cliffs Walk Brass Point Amber£40.00 – £310.00 -
Golden Spiral Starlings West Pier Pebble Beach£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starlings Murmuration Brighton Lights£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants Song Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton’s West Pier and Rampion Wind Farm Song£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants Song£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Rampion Wind Farm Song£192.00 -
West Pier Song Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants Gesso£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Gesso£40.00 – £310.00 -
A Cycle to Adelaide Crescent Brighton and Hove Seafront£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Regency Town House Brunswick Square Song£40.00 – £52.00 -
Charles Street Brighton Seaside Architecture£40.00 – £310.00 -
New Steine Blue Sea Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
Adelaide Crescent Blue Sea Brighton£48.00 – £120.00 -
Brunswick Place Blue Sea Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
Palace Pier Starling Song£40.00 – £310.00 -
Gateway Song to Seven Sisters White Cliffs£40.00 – £310.00 -
Shoreline Starlings Brighton by the Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Bandstand Verandah West Pier View Ocean Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starlings Kemptown Brighton Seafront Ocean Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Curled Fox Sky Prospect Cottage Shingles and Sea Kale£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton Bandstand Verandah West Pier Song£40.00 – £310.00 -
Morning Swim Worthing£40.00 – £180.00 -
Starlight Starlings Brighton£40.00 – £310.00 -
Seven Sisters Cliffs Walk Brass Point Diamond£48.00 – £120.00 -
West Pier Starling Song Antique Ochre and Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starling Murmuration over the West Pier at Brighton Beach£40.00 – £310.00 -
Golden Spiral Starlings West Pier£40.00 – £310.00 -
Shoreline Starlings Brighton by the Sea Pebble Beach£40.00 – £310.00 -
Seaford Beach Assembly Rooms 1887£40.00 – £310.00 -
1882 Seaford Beach Steamship Gannet£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starlings Kemptown Brighton Seafront Pebble Beach£40.00 – £310.00 -
Hove Brighton Beach Promenade Modernist£192.00 -
Embassy Court Brighton and Hove Seafront Modernist£192.00 -
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea Modernist£192.00 -
Saltdean Lido by the Sea Modernist£192.00 -
Birling Gap Starling Murmuration White Cliffs£192.00 -
Saltdean Lido by the Sea Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Saltdean Lido by the Sea Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Seaford Head the Promenade and Fisherwoman£40.00 – £310.00 -
Lewes Town and Marshes from Southease£40.00 – £310.00 -
Norfolk Waxham Sands£40.00 – £310.00 -
Durdle Door Dorset Scarlett Reverie£40.00 – £310.00 -
Seven Sisters White Cliffs from Hope Gap£40.00 – £310.00 -
Legends of Glastonbury Tor£40.00 – £310.00 -
Spring Lambs in South Downs South Hill Barn£40.00 – £310.00 -
Spring in South Downs from Seaford to Cuckmere Haven£40.00 – £310.00 -
Starlings Flying over Brighton Palace Pier£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beach Hut Print. Brighton Seafront by Hove Plinth and Kings House Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Wagtail birds by Hove Plinth at Brighton Seafront£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Avocet by the Red Roofed Hut among Sea Poppies and Sea Kale£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beach Hut Art. Brighton Seafront by Hove Plinth and Kings House Antique Ochre and Blue£192.00 -
Brighton West Pier and Rampion Wind Farm Antique Ochre and Blue£192.00 -
Beachy Head White Cliffs Lavender Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Beachy Head Lighthouse White Cliffs Lavender Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Lavender Print. White Cliffs Lavender Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Brighton’s West Pier and Rampion Wind Farm Gold Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Hove Brighton Beach Promenade Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
Kemptown Brighton Beach Promenade Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
Seven Sisters White Cliffs£192.00 -
South Downs Way Belle Tout Lighthouse Beachy Head£192.00 -
Prospect Cottage Garden Room£48.00 – £120.00 -
Derek Jarman Garden Prospect Cottage£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants Antique Ochre and Blue£40.00 – £310.00 -
Two Swimmers by the West Pier£40.00 – £180.00 -
Seven Sisters Walk Cuckmere Haven to Birling Gap Summer£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seven Sisters Cliff Walk Brass Point Summer£48.00 – £120.00 -
Brighton Undercliff Walk Summer£48.00 – £120.00 -
Roedean School Brighton Chalk Cliffs Summer£48.00 – £120.00 -
A Winter Walk along Brighton Beach£40.00 – £310.00 -
The Barbeque on Brighton Beach. The two Roberts£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants Grey Silver£40.00 – £310.00 -
Gateway to Seven Sisters White Cliffs£48.00 – £120.00 -
Roedean School Brighton Chalk Cliffs£48.00 – £249.00 -
Brighton Undercliff Walk£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seaford Head the Promenade and Fishing Boats£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seaford Head to Newhaven Walk Hand in Hand£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seven Sisters Walk Cuckmere Haven to Birling Gap£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seven Sisters Cliffs Walk Brass Point£48.00 – £120.00 -
Seven Sisters Print White Cliffs Sussex Mint£40.00 – £310.00 -
Bosham Harbour Chichester West Sussex£192.00 -
Red Roofed Hut Rye Harbour Camber Sands£192.00 -
Ce Bleu Dungeness Derek Jarman Prospect Cottage£192.00 -
Eastbourne East Promenade Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Eastbourne West Promenade Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Birling Gap Starling Murmuration£192.00 -
Morning Walk Sea Promenade Brighton and Hove Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Devils Dyke Walk Season Fall£192.00 -
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Hove Brighton Promenade Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Kemptown Brighton Promenade Pebble Beach£192.00 -
I360, Palace Pier, The Bandstand and West Pier Pebble Beach£192.00 -
I360, Palace Pier, The Bandstand and West Pier Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Adelaide, Beach Huts, Brunswick and the Two Piers Ocean Blue£192.00 -
West Pier Rampion Wind Farm Eventide£192.00 -
Cuckmere Haven Valley Eventide£192.00 -
Birling Gap Starling Murmuration Eventide£192.00 -
Embassy Court Brighton and Hove Promenade Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Kemptown Brighton Promenade Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Hove Brighton Seafront Ocean Blue£192.00 -
West Pier Brighton Night Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
West Pier Cormorants£40.00 – £310.00 -
Paddleboarding on Brighton Beach£40.00 – £52.00 -
A Sea Swim by the West Pier£40.00 – £52.00 -
Diving into the Sea£40.00 – £180.00 -
Winter Swim with a Woolly Hat£40.00 – £52.00 -
The Bather and the Cormorant£40.00 – £180.00 -
A Dance at the Brighton Bandstand£40.00 – £183.00 -
The Diving Cormorant under the West Pier£40.00 – £180.00 -
Hove Brighton Shore Silver£192.00 -
Kemptown Brighton Promenade Silver£192.00 -
The Starling at Pavilion Gardens£40.00 – £52.00 -
The Cormorant and the West Pier£40.00 – £52.00 -
The Tight-rope Walker and the Sea£40.00 – £52.00 -
Brunswick Place and the Sea£40.00 – £310.00 -
Stratus Over Dungeness Derek Jarman Prospect Cottage£192.00 -
London Thames by Westminster Bridge Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
London River Thames by Tower Bridge Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
Bicycle and bench, Brighton Seafront£40.00 – £180.00 -
Cycling to the Palace Pier£40.00 – £310.00 -
Morning Swim Saltdean Lido by the Sea£192.00 -
Derek Jarman Blue Night Dungeness Prospect Cottage£192.00 -
De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
De la Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea Silver Grey£192.00 -
De la Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Brighton Palace Pier£180.00 -
London River Thames by Westminster Bridge Ocean Blue£192.00 -
London River Thames by Tower Bridge Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Brighton City Pier Blue K£192.00 -
Dolphins of Brighton West Pier£40.00 – £310.00 -
Palmeira Brunswick and the Two Piers Mauve Sky£192.00 -
West Pier Rampion Wind Farm Rusted Irons£192.00 -
West Pier Rampion Wind Farm Silver Grey£192.00 -
Hove Lawns, Two Piers Emerald Skies£192.00 -
Brighton City Pier Mauve Sky£192.00 -
Eastbourne Pier and Huts Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
Palmeira Brunswick and the Two Piers Antique Blue and Ochre£192.00 -
Brighton City Pier Ocean Blue£192.00 -
London River Thames by Tower Bridge Pebble Beach£192.00 -
London River Thames by Westminster Bridge Pebble Beach£192.00 -
Eastbourne Pier and Huts Pebble Beach£192.00 -
West Pier irons£40.00 -
Marine Parade Brighton Pier£40.00 -
Deck Chairs Brighton Pier£40.00 -
Brighton Beach Pier and Deck Chairs£40.00 -
Indian Bicycle on the Promenade£40.00 -
Rainbow over the West Pier Brighton£40.00 -
Rainbow over the Helter Skelter Brighton Palace Pier£40.00 -
Hove Esplanade Two Piers Ocean Ocean Blue£40.00 -
Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs£40.00 -
Coastguard Cottages Cuckmere Chalk Cliffs£40.00 -
Chalk’n Flint Flying Chalk Cliffs£40.00 -
Beachy Head Lighthouse Chalk Cliffs£40.00 -
The Needles and the Moon Blue Night£40.00 -
Beachy Head Lighthouse Blue Night£40.00 -
I360 Palace Pier Bandstand Ocean Blue£192.00 -
Dolphins of Brighton West Pier Midnight Sea£40.00 – £180.00