Artistic Expression

Art has always been how we process what the rational mind cannot hold. These stories feature painters, poets, filmmakers, and musicians whose work is drawn from the ocean, its beauty, its grief, its scale. Where science measures the sea, art attempts to feel it.

All stories

The Tide Keepers

Indigenous Knowledge

Singing to the rhythm of the tides

Along the coast where Kenya meets Somalia, a string of coral islands and mangrove-fringed channels marks the edge of an ancient world.

Women and water are entwined like two vines

Olivia Mary Nantongo

Artistic Expression

Interview with artist Olivia Mary Nantongo

Born in Kampala, Olivia Mary Nantongo is part of a new generation of Ugandan artists reshaping contemporary African portraiture.

Learnings from Lake Victoria

Artistic Expression

An interview with artist Fiker Solomon

Fiker Solomon's art uses yarn, jute, natural sponges and palm leaves

A poem on the Kilifi Ocean - Depression

Wellbeing & Blue Mind

Bahari Yetu: a song that carries the Swahili Coast

Dr Claudia Lubao

Using Popular Music for Ocean Literacy on the Swahili Coast

The water is shallow here, clear enough to see seagrass shifting beneath the surface.

The keepers of the salt

Joyleen Sagandira

Artistic Expression

A daughter's song for Lamu

Poems from Cornwall - a land shaped by sea

Mordros

Artistic Expression

September 30, 2025

Poems from Cornwall: a land shaped by sea

Stand on the shoreline and listen.

Ode to the people of the sea

Ode to the people of the sea: voyages like none other

Marine Heritage

September 28, 2025

From Polynesian canoes to multihulls: celebrating the people who lived the sea as home.

James Wharram was the British pioneer of ocean sailing multihulls.

Saltwater stories

Saltwater stories

Artistic Expression

An underwater photographer's reflection on art and the ocean

The ocean is everything to me. It inspires my work, my play, my passions. As a photographer I look to the ocean as an everchanging stimulus that helps fuel my creativity.

How the sea came to have salt: a Nordic Folktale

How the sea came to have salt: a Nordic Folktale

Artistic Expression

Morvern tells the story of giantess sisters, Fenja and Menja

Half a year ago, I moved from my life in Scotland’s bustling capital city to a little house on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the North Sea.

Weaving Waves: the power of art

Weaving Waves

Artistic Expression

October 31, 2024

the power of art in ocean conservation

That was the creative brief I received from Rip Curl Indonesia when they commissioned me to create an art piece for their new store opening at Canggu Beach in Bali: to connect customers to the ocean through a captivating visual experience.

Humans of the Lagoon: sensing Venice’s celestial veins

Humans of the lagoon

Letizia Artioli

Artistic Expression

October 31, 2024

Exploring Venice's watery veins through art and storytelling

"Here more than anywhere else – It is as if space, aware of its own inferiority with respect to time, responds to it with the only property that time does not possess: with beauty.

Poetry Collection: the invisible cost of climate change on the ocean and ourselves

Ode to the ocean

Artistic Expression

October 31, 2024

Poetry on the invisible cost of climate change

Ocean acidification is one of climate changes’ “invisible ghosts” haunting our ocean.

Baselines; painting our new landscapes

Baselines: Painting Our New Ocean Landscapes from the Isle of Skye

Artistic Expression

October 30, 2024

Artist Sarah Bold conveys the ocean and all we cannot see

Painting the landscape

Connecting to the Ocean Through Sound

Composing the ocean

Joshua Sam Miller

Artistic Expression

October 28, 2024

Connecting to the ocean through sound

Over the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of creating music with whales and dolphins, exploring that profound power to deepen our connection with blue spaces.

Thinking (with) water

How to think with water

Artistic Expression

November 29, 2023

All our journeys are definitively linked with water, and Claudia Egerer takes us on an exploration of our interconnected nature.

"Exceeding definition and measurement, [w]ater is H₂O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what it is."

Harmonising nature and community through art in Cornwall’s secret underwater gardens

The secret underwater gardens of Cornwall

Artistic Expression

November 29, 2023

Connecting nature and community through art

Cornish communities have flourished, dwindled and regrown, but the Helford Estuary has flowed steady throughout the centuries.

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At SeaVoice, we believe that understanding the complex dynamics between human culture and the environment is crucial for addressing the challenges we face today. By exploring the stories of those who have a deep connection to bodies of water, we gain a deeper appreciation for the importance of preserving and protecting these invaluable resources.

SeaVoice is produced by the Ocean Decade Heritage Network UK (ODHN-UK). ODHN-UK is a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC052384)