Marianthi Lainas

'Having spent most of my life living a stone’s throw from the coast, much of my work is informed by the dynamic places at the far edges of the land and the transience of the littoral landscape.  The tidal islands, shifting sands and visiting migratory birds of the Dee Estuary near my home in North West England provide the focus for much of my interest and recent projects have involved combining photographic techniques with mixed media processes to visually interpret cycles of ebb and flow.

Perhaps inevitably, I also feel a great affinity with other seaward-facing communities and this has led to visual explorations of remote northern coastlines, including Arctic Greenland.'