Matthew Jenkins

An Art Book titled ‘Welcome to Serenity Bay’, detailing primary environment concepts and location development for an exaggerated narrative world reflecting the Moray Firth coastline, where I grew up and frequently explored. Set in the early 2000s.

Without viewers necessarily experiencing the coastline from my childhood, my intention is to clearly convey a feeling of excitement experienced from the perspective of a fascinated child exploring its varied landscape. My focus to visualise nostalgia is conveyed by providing a distinct feeling of inferiority for the world’s inhabitants and viewer, both through the child’s perspective, scale of the world and in the display of my environments and map through large A1/A2 size posters that accompany the Art Book.

This project is deeply rooted in my own nostalgia for the coastline where I was raised, the locations and story all amplified from my own experiences though a surreal lens.