The swimmers and bathers in Skirmish are having fun, absorbed in the enjoyment of being in water and with one another. They could be any of us on holiday, indulging our own childlike and unselfconscious delight in swimming, splashing and cavorting in the warm and inviting sea. Successive momentary images were linked together, to reveal minute sequential fragments of time and activity within a pictorial space. For the physical manifestation of this work, I invented ways of combining handcrafted techniques with images recorded on digital video. I used shallow bas relief to animate the typically mechanical and processed character of the digital print with a hint of the three dimensionality and other qualities of colour, texture and surface of bathers and water. The relief surface gently breaks through the picture plane and enters the space of the viewer, to give an impression of figures which appear to swim within the surface of the work. This quirky, even dreamlike work celebrates the minute, inconsequential, but often surprising moments of everyday life. Repetition and small variations of movement and gesture appear as though frozen, isolated from the familiar flow of time and space, and enhanced by the incessant motion of the sea.