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.
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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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