Looking like sugared jelly sweets. Calcite crystals on quartz. Lapworth Museum of Geology at Birmingham University.
Welcome to the blog of Janet Tryner, Contemporary Artist. Here are notes about works in progress, workshop news and random writing. Also, bits and bobs that for some reason or other haven't made it onto Instagram or my website, which I try to keep in a tidy state, but sometimes I just have to write more about what I'm up to with stuff. I don't have a regular update plan but this is a 'live' site. So, if it isn't up to date when you visit, it will be at some point. Please check back.
Sunday 16 June 2019
Treasure seeking
My hoard of pebbles is growing. Even though I limit myself to taking away as few as possible and then only the smallest samples of the best. Collection, collecting, connecting to place and taking away, memento, state of mind, rubbing, wearing away, rounding. Water and rock & rocks and rocks, getting smaller. Getting nearer.
King’s Quoit & Manorbier Beach, South Pembrokeshire.
At Tenby the stepped path to the beach was precipitous. I was scared. Stood low trying to ground myself clinging to the handrail, talked myself through it, didn’t look away from the path, stopped many times. Eventually, the beach was flat and sandy, speckled with pebbles and shells - razor, cockle, winged tellin, oyster and a few shiny, slate blue broken mussel shells - and a boulder speckled with grass and inhabited by gulls and a fortress, girdled with more steps. We didn’t go up.
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