Coastal Fragments (part of series) Print

This project was born in 2010 when two individual artists, Jean Pierre Gatt, photographer and film maker from Malta and Derek Nice, painter and sculptor from Great Britain researched, in visual detail aspects of the man made impact along the sea edge around the Maltese Islands and UK. One uses a photographic camera, the other paint brushes and canvas. Both artists inspired each other by visiting each other’s territories. Photowalks alongside both the coast of the Maltese islands and the shore of East Anglia in the UK contributed to this selection of works. ‘Coastal Fragments’ is an abstract based photographic images which look much closer, in visual detail, at objects found on the sea edge and its surroundings. Lines, shapes, colour and form are some of the attributes forming the base of this series. Not one image is meant to match, help, enhance and / or distract any of the other images, but each and every one of them has its own symmetrical, linear and / or colourful attributes that make them stand alone. These images could be details of boats, decaying paint, rusted boat parts, fragments from boat houses, shadows on painted walls, stripped wood, weather covering etc. The colours of these images are also amazing in their own right - the type of paint used by the owners of these marine crafts including the choice of colour, give an infinite palette of bright, summery and contrasting colours to work with. There is no shallow depth of field in any of these images to differentiate between the foreground and the background, in fact there is no foreground and background at all. Every little detail included in the frame is important for the creation and presentation of the whole image. The foreground is the background and vice-versa.