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.

 

 

Gabriel Orozco

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An Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Berlin.

2012 – 2013

 

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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Rusty

‘Rusty’ the Ringstead steed.

Rusty Ringsteed.

Made from rust found on my first beach clean at Ringstead, 28July.2016.

Yellow and green triangles

playing with how to display triangles and trying out the ‘jelly fish’ against this background

using the sketch mode on the camera

washing over the yellow

playing with placement

 

Which do you like the best out of the last two – I can’t decide.

Playing with Canvases

Wondering how I would attach the rust pieces – the background needs softening a bit with more texture.

So excited about this little gem of rusty wire with old netting

but how to mount it

or this

and how do I treat the background, perhaps soft watery greys.

I think it hints at jellyfish.

Ringstead Rust

Update: Frances of Island Threads says this picture reminds her of the Callanish Standing Stones, which gives me a shiver of excitement! I looked them up on Google images and now I’m itching to try a painting with them as inspiration. This photo by David Ross caught my eye

These pictures will only exist as photographs, which might in time be printed on canvas or paper.

The background painting is 16″x16″, acrylic paint and sand mixed with PVA on canvas

Which photograph do you think would look best printed on canvas?

Ringstead 1. displayed

(all this fitted into one carrier bag)

and played

Aluminium dishes, cans and bottle recycled.

Another tobacco pouch complete with tobacco (composted).

Lots of lovely rusty bits.

Hengistbury Haul

Couldn’t resist joining in with TJ’s Household Haiku: prompt TIDE

tide and man

leave litter for art

No! Please don’t!

Items washed and sorted

I like to take a photo from each Beach clean so that I can remember where each item came from

A lot of this is recent rubbish left on the beach

I often wish I was a writer – these could build up a story about a ‘Topman’ called Tim who smokes, has a dog, needs high energy fixes and has had something to celebrate recently.

But in the story Tim doesn’t last long as ‘smoking kills’!

The Hengistbury rainbow

As I’m laying them out ideas start to dance around

A face – do you think it looks like a dog?

and a Hengistbury Head – I call him Henry