Since the end of September I’ve had some artwork up on an art wall in the Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. These include artworks I created for my Pett Level Project along with a few others.
Here is a photo of the wall soon after it was set up:
Below are a few of the artworks including Lost to the Sea, a pen and ink A2 sized drawing and Between the Tides, a mixed media picture.
Two pole like trees tower over a star-encrusted shore where gulls dance. Lost to the Sea refers to the forests that once fringed the coast, but disappeared when the sea rose and the UK became an island about 8,000 years ago.
I was curious about the channels between the mudflats, what fish came in with the incoming tides? Dabs? Between the Tides is an experimental image that doesn’t quite work from a composition point of view, but it was interesting to play with mixed media – collage, pen and ink, acrylic paint and watercolour pencil.
Also up on the wall are Redshank, a papercut layered picture in pen and ink and watercolour pencil and Over the Mudfalts, a mixed media artwork with little flying black tailed godwits positioned on thin wires:
The show is on until 26th October.