Mor / Sea

Mor / Sea moves along Cornwall’s shifting boundaries between the land and sea. These creative works capture this fluctuating liminal space long after the tide washes all traces away.

Acrylic seascape painting of the Cornish coastline, waves breaking on shore, sunlight sparkling on the sea.
Mor Teg I (Beautiful Sea)
Sunlight sparkles on the water. Breaking waves disperse and disappear into the sand.
Acrylic seascape painting showing a wave breaking on a Cornish sandy shore.
Wave Break
A wave dissolves into the sand.
An acrylic on canvas painting of clouds over a calm Cornish sea approaching sunset.
Winter Reflections
The metallic colours of the early sunset reflect in the calm sea.
An acrylic Cornish seascape painting after dusk. The sun has set behind the sea and the clear sky is lit up in rainbow-like hues from red at the horizon to orange, yellow, green and deep blue at the top of the painting. The reddish colours are reflected in the wet sand.
Dying Light
The sun has set and the light dies in rainbow-like hues above the beach.
An abstract photograph of fine beach sand worked into a pattern through wave action.
Sand Abstract I
Patterns created by the sea.
An abstract black and white photograph of beach sand worked into a rippling pattern through wave action.
Sand Abstract II
Waves leave their echoes in the sand.
Bude's breakwater and the sunset are reflected in the mirror-like water.
Breakwater Reflection
The still water creates a perfect reflection.
A photograph of a Cornish dark, stormy sea with blue/grey turbulent clouds overhead. At the horizon, there is a thin pinkish/orange hint of the sunset.
Winter Depression
A slender sunset slips between the horizon.
A photograph viewed from the Cornish clifftop looking out to sea. It is a calm sea and a blue sky. The small cove is surrounded by high, dark cliffs banded with white quartz.
Beeny Cliff
Thomas Hardy’s infamous cliffhanger.
A long exposure photograph of a Cornish stony beach at sunset. The milky calm water curls mist-like across the stones. On the horizon, golden and pinky hues touch the sky.
Millook Beach
Water caresses the land.
A photograph of a Cornish granite outcrop at Zennor headland. The boulders create a frame with a narrow window looking out to blue sea and sky.
Zennor Head
A natural frame.
A photograph from the cliff top looking across Bude bay. It is the golden hour near sunset. Large sets of waves are populated by surfers. In the middle left of the image is a pole with a barrel on the top - a marker for the boats coming inland - which has been hit by a breaking wave.
Barrel Rock
And barrel waves to surf.
A black and white photograph viewing along the Cornish coastline. It is a misty day so the distant rocky headlands fade into the murk.
Sea Mist
Proper Cornish Weather
An acrylic Cornish seascape with a wave crashing on a sandy shore. The horizon is clear blue sky and the sun glitters on the water.
Mor Teg II (Beautiful Sea)
Sunlight glitters on the water.

These works sit within a wider exploration of Cornwall’s coastline; its paths, headlands and weathered edges.

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