Round the Island Art Trail: Low Abbey Gallery, Bowness-on-Solway – September 2025
Estuary: Where rivers meet the sea, memories linger.
This collection of nine bowls carries the quiet imprint of estuarine childhoods—mud on ankles, birds in flight, salt wind across tidal creeks. Each piece holds a fragment: of laughter echoing through reed beds, of avocets stepping like calligraphy through shallows, of change—gradual, quiet, painful.
The inscriptions on these bowls are rooted in Britain of the 1970s where childhood took place in imagination and nature when birds still filled the estuary skies. Each piece is part vessel, part poem. Together, they form a remembered ecology: of place, of time and of loss.
This is a celebration of estuary birds, of forgotten childhood adventures, of solastalgia—the longing for a place as it once was.
These bowls are not just vessels. They are listening forms, holding what slips away: the hush of the marsh, the warmth of a fog-damp morning, the joy of finding life in silt.
