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Sand

4/30/2018

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'Cove'  
Mixed media: Acrylic and beach sand on canvas 35.5x 45.5  2018
  


Sand is the texture of childhood summer holidays: warm wet sand squidging  up between the toes, and my four-year-old fascination with wormcasts on the beach- where did they come from and who made them?   Sand getting onto  towels, and blown into sandwiches, mouths and hair by sudden gusts of wind; sandcastles made with bucket,  spade and tongue-out concentration, my small hands patting seawater over the walls to stop them crumbling.
Fast forward many years, and the sand is freezing and wet when I take my boots and socks off one December evening on a quiet Anglesey beach, and walk with the sun setting into a red-gold line on the horizon. 
I know I'm getting strange, amused looks from the dog-walkers I pass but really, I don't care. The last time I remember feeling sand under my feet was  with the heat of a New  Zealand summer soaking through my shirt, and someone else  walking  with me; even though this welsh  sand has long ago lost any summer warmth, the feeling is glorious, and I'm briefly back to the freedom of childhood  again.
On the morning I go home I  return to this beach and carefully pour a handful of sand into a jar. A few weeks later, with a freshly painted canvas in front of me,  I scatter some sand onto the still-wet foreground, where  it becomes part of this painting's texture, and of its new memory.  

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     I am a full-time painter who delights in nature, the beauty of words, and the infinite potential of the creative spirit. I'm currently based in the UK. on the borderlands between England and Wales.

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