'A sea breeze wafts up from every page. This book is a delight.' -
Nigel Slater
Both grounding and uplifting, From Coast & Cove, the new book from
author and acclaimed illustrator Anna Koska, walks us through the four
seasons on the English coast. Beautifully observed, contemplative and
deeply personal, Anna combines emotive and evocative tales of life
beside the sea with her exquisitely detailed and intricate illustrations
of the plants and wildlife found in the water and along the coastline.
Anna and her family moved from East Sussex to Devon in 2020 and she now
finds inspiration for her artworks in the ebb and flow of the tide
throughout the year, the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore and
the creatures spotted in the air, on land and tucked away in rockpools -
whether it's the haunting cry of the curlew heard while kayaking along
the River Dart, the iridescent scales and pointed teeth of a hake, the
mussel shells discarded by an oystercatcher, or the kelp, wrack and
eelgrass strewn along the beach and pressed for posterity.
A love letter to the natural world captured in materials ranging from
pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and egg tempera, From Coast & Cove
details an artist's year spent beside the sea. A book to savour, and a
wonderful celebration of nature's cycles and minutiae.
