Marnie Keltie
Email: marniekeltie@hotmail.com
www.marniekeltie.co.uk
My current work is an investigation of a section of the beach close to where I live on the island of North Uist, through photography, painting, printmaking, collection and research.
The beach is in a constant state of transformation:- It is continuously marked by the flora and fauna that visit or have been washed there from distant places; decaying wreckage records the passage of time and colours the beach; the flotsam that is deposited illustrates the way we live; with each visit the tide draws new patterns on the shore; coastal erosion uncovers the geology and archaeology.
I see the ocean as the original World Wide Web – carrying objects between continents and depositing them on the beach, writing the story of the elements in the sand and shingle on a twice-daily basis, eroding and revealing the hidden past. With one tide it can uncover a Viking wheelhouse or lay a delicate light bulb, intact, on the shingle.