At room temperature, water is a tasteless, odourless liquid, almost colourless with a hint of blue. And vital to life.

2025

Raindancer #3 – cyanotype – c.10x20cm

Raindancer #2 – cyanotype – c.10x20cm

Raindancer #1 – cyanotype – c.10x20cm

Wild swimmers – cyanotype – c.16x15cm

2024

River II – monoprinted paper collage – 22 x 24 cm

River – monoprinted paper collage – 205 x 238 mm

All things quickly vanish – monoprinted paper collage –

Melt – monoprinted paper collage –

Calves – monoprinted paper collage – 23 x 22cm

Iceberg – monoprinted paper collage – 255 x 225 mm

2023

Blue planet – monoprint – 60x40cm

Bodies of water – monoprint – 60x40cm

Mostly water – monoprint – 60x40cm

2019

Waitaiki – linocut – 950 x 150mm – edition: 10

2018

Waimakariri III – linocut – 20 x 20cm

2017

How worthy of honour is the sea – screenprint – 28x9cm – edition: 7

The sea is just a wetter version of the sky – screenprint – 28x9cm – edition: 12

2014

Net of wonder – textile panel with printed text, driftwood & mother of pearl – c.80x120cm

Every drop in the ocean counts – felted wool and fishing line

Refract II – textile panel (recycled plastic)

Refract I – textile panel (recycled plastic)

2011

Waimakariri II – 125 x 60mm – edition:12

2009

Waimakariri I – 75 x 205mm – Edition: 20

2006

Waimakariri – mosaic – 50x50cm – Pataka pottery tiles and Waimakariri river pebbles

What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier returning to the range, admire?  Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents: gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs, and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe) numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90% of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.

Hymn to water

James Joyce, Ulysses