Inspiration...Time and Tide.

There's so much "stuff" out there...apart from in here 

...that's at The Potters House....I mean.

Then every now and again you see something and some art touches a very deep spot in your soul.

That's how we felt seeing the work of Roger Hardy in The East Coast Cafe in Aldeburgh.

An Exhibition called ...Time and Tide

   

From the reedy banks of the Alde river he collects driftwood and over time turns it into stunning assemblages.

I have always been an edge walker...that's the edge of the tide.

Whether Ballyferris in Northern Ireland...our favourite beach in Spain or nowadays Morecambe Bay.

And if you are such a walker you can't help but love how the sea takes what it can..changes it and throws it back up on the banks and beaches when it 's finished with it.

   

This is worth a look online for any assemblage lover of art and walker on the edge.

Irrelevancies

I saw this quote from the Times at the weekend.  Tutor to Paloma Faith [singer], " The medium in which you express yourself is irrelevant. What is important is what you are trying to say." 

When I was at college working towards my B.A. in Fine Art, my struggle was to narrow down the ideas coming from my butterfly mind.
Whether to paint or collage, to use ceramics, installation art or performance.

Then as now the theme running through it all was, the human race on the edge. A place that I knew so well growing up, edge where sea meets land. A very edgy place yet also comforting in the eternal movement of time and tide. I have always been a gatherer of stuff thrown up by the waves. These are often bits thrown overboard, abandoned then changed by the water and salt and continual movement of wind and weather.

These pieces of work are the result of my years of looking and making. they are often a statement of relationships and family trauma and joy.                                                                  

                                 

              

       Sometimes they are just themselves!  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Together they make a statement about life and family and all those ordinary things that are really 

extra-ordinary!