Estuaries and Coastlines

Greg Ramsden RSMA presents a new collection at Tonic Gallery in Salcombe, which explores the beauty of Devon and Cornwall’s tidal estuaries. “Estuaries have a very particular presence” says Greg. “I am inspired by both their history and their quiet drama. These are flooded areas, once valleys between steep mountains, now filled with tidal waters. You can feel the ancient landscape beneath the surface, that sense of place that has been reshaped but not erased. Estuaries are places where the sea, land and light are always in motion and nothing is fixed. Tides pull, the water rises and falls, and the atmosphere changes minute to minute. Estuaries are a threshold between certainty and uncertainty, between solidity and fluidity. That tension is what fuels my work.”