Seaside Square is a literary prose diary and art book set in a late Georgian square by the sea on England’s south coast, observing sea, sky, weather, architecture and wildlife.

A 128-page volume, 18 x 11cm, printed on high quality card and paper, thread- bound, published in 2010. The book is a collaboration by a writer and an artist, designed and produced by them (apart from printing and binding), and published by the author. It is a diary describing the view from a large window in a late Georgian square overlooking the sea, on the south coast of England.

The diary is a cool, concise, factual account of scenes and moments at the time of their observation, composed in a richly literary style of prose, spanning three periods each of twelve months, separated by intervals of a decade. 

The artwork, undertaken for the duration of the third sequence, is intermingled with the text and distributed throughout the book: vibrant original paintings, drawings and sketches – in watercolour, oil, charcoal, and pen and ink – of scenes at the same overall location, generally independent of specific references and descriptions in the text. The sea and sky and weather conditions are the main subjects, while the architecture, garden, wildlife and promenade are frequently featured.