On The Shore - Trees


Cover

Vinyl L.P - CBS Records - S 64168.
1971 - U.K.

Sleeve design, photos, tinting (A. Powell/S. Thorgerson): HIPGNOSIS.
Little girl: Katherine Meehan.


Back cover

Labels



Trees


Celia Humphris - Vocals.
Barry Clarke - Guitar, dulcimer.
David Costa - Acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin.
Bias Boshell - Bass, vocals, piano, acoustic guitar.
Unwin Brown - Drums, vocals.



About the artwork:


Location:

The Hill Garden and Pergola
Hampstead Heath

Inverforth Close, North End Way, London NW3 7EX


The model:

Katie Meehan
Daughter of Tony Meehan (The Shadows)



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  1. WIKIPEDIAJune 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM


    On the Shore is the second, and final, album by British folk rock band Trees. It was recorded in October 1970, and released in January 1971 on CBS Records (64168). It was later released on CD by the BGO label.

    Sleeve design by Hipgnosis. The cover photographs were taken at The Hill Garden, part of Inverforth House, Hampstead Heath in North West London, designed by landscape architect Thomas Mawson.

    The model in the photo was Katie Meehan, daughter of Tony Meehan from The Shadows.

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  2. IT'S PSYCHODELIC BABY MAGAZINE.comJune 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM


    Trees interview | David Costa
    by Klemen Breznikar

    ‘On The Shore’ has one of the most iconic artworks.

    Unsurprisingly this is a subject very close to my heart and only gains in significance the more I think or write about it, which recently has been a great deal. I loved the sleeve the moment I saw it.

    It was, I’d felt, great lateral thinking, the spreading wave of thrown water across a gloomy park, hand-coloured in a Victorian palette with the little Katherine Meehan uncomfortably smiling to camera.

    But on the other hand maybe it wasn’t entirely lateral thinking at all, I’ve come to realise. I now find myself thinking that maybe Storm and Po of Hipgnosis understood more about us at the time than we did ourselves. Maybe that’s fanciful. They couldn’t have conceived the visual result from the first album without homing in on the track ‘The Garden Of Jane Delawney’.

    I’m not sure how much of the emerging album ‘On The Shore’ they’d have been given to listen to for reference but, somewhere between the two, they produced a sleeve that defined the album, even more so than we were able to at the time. I now can’t talk about ‘On The Shore’ without referring directly to the song ‘The Garden Of Jane Delawney’, and it’s Jane’s presence I see in the ‘On The Shore’ album sleeve.

    Katherine Meehan, the little girl in the photo and Shadows drummer Tony Meehan’s daughter, is Jane Delawney. That’s it. There she is, spanning across both albums. And I’m not sure we even saw that at the time.

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