Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beach. Show all posts

Monday, 5 April 2010

From Reculver with Love



More seaside adventures, this time to Reculver on the north coast of Kent. Reculver is best know for its towers, what remains of the parish church, abandoned to the sea but the towers were retained as a navigational aid. They now stand almost as a lone facade of what was once there.



Easter weekend is when UK holiday resorts start to wake up after the winter, Reculver's traditional 'kiss-me-quick' seaside offer was starting to wake up from hibernation.



Next stop was Whitstable which, despite its gentrification, is still home to a working harbour and fishing fleet.

Whitstable is probably most famous for its oysters. The local oyster company is trying to keep the oyster farming (or fishing?) in the area sustainable, by reestablishing oyster beds from restaurant discarded oyster shells



All this sea air makes me hungry.



Monday, 29 March 2010

The World Beach Project


Bradwell-on-Sea, on a remote peninsula, on the Essex coast, is a wonderfully evocative place. A flat marshy landscape stretches in to the greyness of the North Sea, the coastline studded with ancient monuments and monuments to the nuclear age.


The chapel of St Peters on the Wall has stood on this spot since 654AD (and is built on the foundations of a roman fort). Whilst I am not a religious person, I am never failed to be moved by its ancient beautiful simplicity.

The World Beach Project is a global art project run by the V&A



We decided to join the project in a spot near St Peter's...





Our finished artwork is now on the V&A website, a very proud moment.