• This photographic work documents the dynamics of the humble spent breath and is one in a series of colour photographs that were first created between 2012 and 2014, each recording the out breath of one of Jayne's close circle of friends and family. 

  • Joy is not made to be a crumb (after Mary Oliver Don't Hesitate).  This series of hand-printed etchings are a celebration of the breath evidenced in natural, often seemingly inanimate, phenomenon.  Wilton grew up on the North East coast of Great Britain and has always been entranced by the life-force of the sea and its shoreline.  For years she has captured images of the apparent inhale of the beach as the tide recedes.  Found in abundance, these breathing holes that appear on the beach are an affirmation of resilience and a joyful reminder of the cyclical nature of life.  Each inhale is followed by an exhale as each tide rises and falls, each wave crashes onto and recedes from the coastline.  The work is named after the final line of the Mary Oliver poem 'Don't Hesitate'.  The poem reminds us to gratefully embrace the preciousness of each moment's gift, reflected in the precious metal that is pressed into the embossed surface of the print.  Wilton recorded the air bubbles that appear on the sand as the backwash of a wave forces the air between the sand particles upwards, through small pin holes in the sand.  Her photographic recordings were then transferred to a solar plate, using the energy of the sun to etch out the marks made by the bubbles. The plate was then used to emboss into a sheet of precious metal (gold, copper, silver and mixed metal), pressed onto paper.  The set of four metals is available, each in editions of 8.

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