The “Côte des Légendes” — or, sometimes more poetically, the Pagan Coast — sounds like something from a Breton ballad, and in many ways it feels that way. Stretching along the north of Brittany between Meneham and Amiets-Plage, this rugged stretch of shoreline is a place where granite and myth share equal billing, and where the weather seems to have a mind entirely of its own. The skies here are gloriously indecisive. One moment, a heavy overcast flattens sea and stone into a study in greys; the next, sunlight bursts through in sudden, brilliant shafts, turning the granite outcrops into sculptures of light.

This year I am offering a choice of ten prints with all profits going to two children charities, Action for Children and the Lidya Hope Foundation.

Damian Ward’s work explores the subtle interplay between nature, memory,& the enduring presence of the past. Through a monochromatic lens,he seeks to distill the landscape to its essential form…