A quick beach clean in icy winds
Branscombe: 4th. March
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Ringstead December 2017
Just catching up with some Beach finds.
A family walk on Ringstead Beach, 20th December
We were not there for Beach Cleaning but the children brought a few things they had found, they have been well trained!
They knew my favourite would be the piece of rust
Thames Foreshore
10.Nov.17
Pieces collected from the Thames foreshore near the OXO Tower, photographed on a glass table.
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I set off from Wool Station on a crisp November morning.
arrived in Waterloo at about 11.50 and was delighted to find the tide out along the Thames ….
looking West
looking East
a dear little footprint left by a gull
Just a 10 minute wander along the beach on my way to Tate Modern.
I checked out the Members’ rooms. I went to the one in the new building for lunch
A very nice spacious room BUT!!!!!!! and this is a very BIG BUT
The room is in a new building, an Art Museum and Gallery, there are spectacular views from this room, BUT can you see the views as you sit and have lunch?????????
NO!
How crazy is that!
So I ate my lunch, did a little crochet, and then realised that the grain of the oak table might make a perfect background for my beach finds
The Good Ship ‘Blue Cheese’. God bless her and All who Sail in Her!
And what about the black tray
Then off to explore more of the Tate. You can see a post about my visit on my other blog: Wild Daffodil.
Jewellery from Ocean Plastic – Hawaii
https://www.facebook.com/nurdleintheroughjewelry/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
And a description of the process here
and to their SHOP.
Ringstead 22.May.17
Gabriel Orozco
New York
Barry Rosenthal, New York Artist/Photographer
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Newgale, Pembs 8.Jan.17
9.30am
after a few stormy nights the strand line is way up along the pebbles
and the sea and river together have created a valley in what is usually solid pebbles
I love the way the bridge is being decorated with odd bits of twine, an anonimous communal creative response.
It took about 15 minutes to fill this bucket
…. one of the many things that puzzles me is the amount of empty plastic bottles that people have taken the time to screw the lids back on and then ….? Â just discarded them presumably – what is that about!!!!?
There were some perfectly good gloves left next to where a fire had been lit
It has made me think about the need for a site for lost and found items – I found some prescription sunglasses on a walk three days ago – I’m sure they are much missed.
Hmmm….. how would that work?
And here a canister with the can itself rusted away, just the contents left
I cringe at the thought of what toxic gunk will have gone into the sea.
Newgale, Pembrokeshire
December 2016 (17th and 25th)
Looks clean doesn’t it
Here is the result of two Beach Cleans
And there was SO much more. My beloved Newgale, I had never seen so much stuff on it before, surely we MUST reduce our use of plastics .
To cope with the sadness, I look for gems of colour and design which I hope to make pieces of art with. The unknown human stories attached to each item fascinate me.
Do any of them get your creative mind working?
Lighting?
A mug tree?
A Damien Hirst inspired Spot picture?
A walk on Christmas day.
Thames Haul
and arrangements….
‘Shall we dance?’
Medieval pottery below
Rust, teeth, bones, pottery
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Beach Clean Art 