Learn to capture the beauty of marine life in watercolours with artist Julie Collins

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

From childhood collections to international exhibitions, artist Steve McPherson transforms the Kent coast’s cast-offs into powerful works of memory, mystery and meaning

Amy McPherson explores the importance of the lost kelp forests and how they are making a return

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow

Every month, we trawl the nation’s coastline to bring you news of the people, places and exciting goings-on that are worth knowing about