Ocean Art

Helen Scales is a marine biologist, acclaimed author and broadcaster who teaches at the University of Cambridge. Her books include What the Wild Sea Can Be (2024), which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

In this brilliantly fun and expertly written book, Helen Scales tells crucial human stories about the development of our relationship with the ocean. She takes us on a tour through some of the most compelling, rare, and diverse works of art that have been inspired by sea life, from ancient artifacts and found fossils to modern paintings and scientific illustrations. Marine biologists: this is the ideal book for your artsy side! Artists and historians: you'll find no more appealing way to learn more about all that grows, crawls, slithers, and swims in the ocean!