About the book: Discover the large oil works from Hirst's three sea-themed collections: ‘Coast Paintings’, ‘Sea Paintings’ and ‘Seascapes’. This beautiful hardcover volume is a stunning look at Hirst's relationship with the sea, from his interactions with the 1960s seascapes of Robert Motherwell to his own personal interactions with the British coast, from Filey to Skegness. This catalogue contains full-colour reproductions of the individual works, and shows Hirst's fascination with the sea as a symbol of the incomprehensible.

About the author: James Cahill is a writer and critic based in London who has written for Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, CURA, Elephant, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement. In 2017 he completed a PhD at Cambridge University examining the relationship between contemporary art and classical antiquity.