Featured image: Loraine Roselli – Summer Fjord Rolling Landscape
The theme for the 2025 Members’ Project was Land and Sea. Members were told: ‘You can stitch the land as seen from the sea, the sea as seen from the land, or the coast where the two come together.’
As an island nation, we are surrounded by seas and we offer a huge range of coastlines. The Jurassic Coast stretches about 96 miles from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset and is a World Heritage Site for the value of its rocks and fossils. Ammonites, dinosaur bones and sharks’ teeth tell of its 185 million year history from arid deserts and deep seas to dinosaur-infested swamps. The white cliffs of Dover, reaching a height of 350 feet and composed mainly of chalk, are accented by streaks of black flint and can be seen clearly from a distance out at sea. The shingle landscape of the Kent coast is a mix of nature reserve, nuclear power stations and fishing boats. Norfolk offers pristine sand beaches, soaring cliffs, saltmarshes and estuaries. Liverpool is a bustling busy port with shipping containers, cranes and huge ships – a contrast to the colourful beach huts, striped deck chairs and ice creams of the pleasure beach.
Members were invited to share their interpretation of ‘Land and Sea’.
