Seaside Square
Formats: Paperback
Ages: 18+
A 128-page volume, printed on high quality card and paper, thread-bound, published in 2010. The book is a collaboration by a writer and an artist, designed and produced by them (apart from printing and binding), and published by the author. It is a diary describing the view from a large window in a late Georgian garden square overlooking the sea, on the south coast of England.
The diary is a concise factual account of scenes and moments at the time of their observation, composed in a richly literary style of prose, spanning three periods each of twelve months, separated by intervals of a decade.
The artwork, undertaken for the duration of the third sequence, is intermingled with the text and distributed throughout the book: vibrant original paintings, drawings and sketches - in watercolour, oil and pen and ink - of scenes at the same location, generally independent of specific references and descriptions in the text. The sea and sky and weather conditions are the main subjects, while the architecture, garden, wildlife and promenade are frequently featured.
















