I took part in the Clwydian Creatives Art Trail this September and decided to donate 50% of the sale of my little wooden houses to a brilliant local charity called SHARE - which stands for Supporting Homeless and Refugees Everywhere. They help people who, through no fault of their own, have absolutely nothing. They support refugees in camps in Calais and Greece, collecting donated goods and shipping them over, even with the massive headache of all the red tape since Brexit. They help newly arrived refugees from Afghanistan and they support local families who are struggling, as well as homeless people living on the streets of Chester and other local areas.
Thanks to all the lovely visitors to our Open Studio at Rhydymwyn Nature Reserve, I was recently able to hand over a cheque for £150 to SHARE. Thank you so much to everyone who came and bought a little wooden house and made this donation possible. You are FAB!
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I'm a big fan of poetry. Many of my driftwood pieces are inspired by poems. The fish below was made from a piece of wood found in a beach fire. It was almost a fishy shape, I just coaxed it into even more of one and left its lovely burnt tail. I burned the words into the driftwood with my wonderful wood burning tool! The poem that inspired this piece is called Wilderness by Carl Sandburg https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53233/wilderness. This next piece was inspired by Cargoes, by John Masefield. It's a wonderful poem to learn by heart, it has a great rhythm. Lots of people have told me they learned it at school.
Many of my pieces are now at Echo Beach, the lovely, quirky shop in beautiful Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Some are still on my shelf..I get a bit attached to my creatures! |
ShoreLarkI'm happiest when I'm on a beach, rooting for bits of sea-washed wood, rummaging in the cold ashes of beach fires for rusty nails, sniffing seaweed, gazing into rock pools at incredible leg wiggling, antennae waving creatures, all of which inspire my work.
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