Artist notes: I set up on the reef with an outgoing tide in the Sunday morning sun. Shape, colour and texture wash up against the edges of my conscious intent. Leaving aside form and light effects, I begin. I take no references once I have picked up my brushes and do not look at what I have already recorded for later. Seagulls squawk on the outer reef in reply to the conking calls of a raven. As I lift the brush to the deep yellow acrylic ground on the canvas board, a kingfisher clicks swiftly somewhere behind my left shoulder. I focus on the sounds of the waves and the clean scent of fresh sea draped over scattered seashells with small shore crabs scuttling for shelter. What are these elements without figurative mark making? I leave it to my relaxed whole body and mind sensory system to decide.