Piers Browne trained, some 40 years ago, as a print-maker and a painter. This exhibition contains his work in both media as well as some of his handsome handmade books: A. E. Houseman’s Shropshire Lad, William Wordsworth’s A Lakeland Anthology and Sonnets for a Siren. In the latter 21 of Browne’s etchings are linked to 27 sonnets he wrote for and about a siren who profoundly affected his life. Each book is in a limited edition and exquisitely produced, so it is unsurprising to learn that both the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library both chose to purchase Sonnets for a Siren.

Browne’s painting of How Holy Lady Across Trembling Sea (pictured), depicts the Atlantic coast off Achill Island, County Mayo. Using oil on canvas, Browne captures the restlessness and sheer beauty of tide, currents and water and the way light plays on them, highlighting at one moment and fading at the next.

Browne explains that his intention is always to capture both the transience of the natural world’s light, landscape, wind and water and its sheer beauty. He describes his technique as painting from thin to fat: using layers of paint to create depth and texture, and that he achieves what he wants by taking a “manic yet considered approach”.

He uses a similar method in his etchings by putting layers of colour on to his etching plates. Thus in Kingfisher County near Witney, Oxfordshire, he is able to capture the imminence of a terrific storm: thunderous clouds and jaundiced sky which overshadow the figures of tiny unprepared sheep, innocently grazing beneath them.

The Sea, The Sea continues at Art Jericho until October 3.