SUNNY DAY ON THE SHORELINE

ILLUSTRATOR ALICE STEVENSON DISCOVERS CURIOUS PLACES AND SURPRISING PERSPECTIVES ON HER TRAVELS, EXPLORING WONDERLANDS WITH AN ARTIST’S EYE

As I look out over the Suffolk creek I see the rich pattern of its bed, revealed by low tide. It shimmers white gold in the April sunlight and a darker mud emerges from it like swirls of chocolate sauce in vanilla ice-cream. Bright green algae and spiky sea grass interrupt the monochrome pattern of the flats as, marble-like, it spreads out across the creek merging into a darker, metallic grey in the distance. Close up, this formation loses its definition and becomes a soggy mess of damp sticks and churned mud beneath the raised footpath I am standing on. But it is a proper spring weekend after a dreary winter and nothing can dampen the experience of admiring this view with the sun on my face and arms. At the…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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