Aid Thomas – artworks
“I much prefer not telling you what to think…”
An artist I knew once said “the Visual Artist has nothing to say” – I didn’t agree with that then, and still don’t, but I won’t tell you what to think, especially about my artwork…
I draw and paint, and sometimes work three-dimensionally, around 3 or 4 themes.. ‘water’, ‘stone’ and ‘river’ and last, but hardly least, ‘Time’ itself…
Beth Nielsen Chapman said it quite beautifully in her song “Sand and Water” –
“Solid stone, it’s just sand and water,
Sand and water and a million years gone by…”
..so it’s all a vast cycle of nature, very appealing to my own artistic Celtic-Druid nature, and fits well with my latest ‘role’ as a beach cleaner on Swanage beach…
Aid Thomas
‘my beaches’ timeline
Meilleha, Malta GC
South Bay, Scarborough, N Yorks
West beach, Littlehampton, W Sussex
Shell bay, Dorset
Studland NT Naturist beach, Dorset
Lulworth Cove, Dorset
Durdle Door, Dorset
Kimmeridge bay, Dorset
Swanage beach, Dorset
orange abstract – lichen on gate / iphone7 photo / 2017
dancing ledge ‘down by the sea’ / rotring pen drawing on paper / 3″ x 6″ – 2015
yellow woman / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2015
enigmatic smile ( mona lisa ) / installation – wooden block and rope, exhibited at ‘..all washed-up..’ – July-Aug 2017 / two objects, mysterious castaways, washed up and found together, on Swanage beach
green abstract / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2016
harbour stones, Swanage / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2017
white pebble, slate rock ledge by the Irish Sea / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2017 / ‘game in stillness’ 1
kimmeridge, rock formation / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2016 / ‘game in stillness’ 7
red ball in green landscape / iPad drawing / 8″ x 6″ – 2016 / re-imagined from an old idea in 1972
ballard Down, from Banjo Pier / iPad sketch / 6″ x 8″ – 2016
boats on Arun, high tide / watercolour on Archers / 8″ x 12″ – 1996
ballard Down / watercolour on tiger paper / 5.5″ x 8.5″ – 2017
arun at Littlehampton, high tide / watercolour on Archers / 8″ x 12″ – 1996
homage to Chagall’s ‘The lovers’ / Swanage beach litter ; inc. glass, bracelet, clay pipes, wooden spoons, a green ‘thing’ and natural forms / 15″ x 10″ – 2017
Toys-R-us Litterus ( New Species discovered on Swanage Beach ) / Swanage beach litter / assemblage, mixed media / 6″ x 5″ x 6″ – July 2017 – on show at ‘..all washed-up..’
swanberry Tuesdae (..nice enough to eat?..) / Swanage beach litter / assemblage of typical beach ‘finds’ / 3″x 3″x 3″ – 11/7/2017 / all elements ‘picked’ from Swanage beach by The Mowlem – on show at ‘..all washed- up..’
“Jonny 5″- glass face 1 / Swanage beach litter ; inc. salt glazed pipe, glass and natural forms / 12″ x 12” – 2017
crown of thorns / Swanage beach litter ; inc. mainly plastic bottle fragments and cable ties, and natural forms / 12″ x 10″ – 2017
“emperor’s new clothes”- glass face 2 / Swanage beach litter ; mainly glass / 12″ x 12″ – 2017
woman, dreaming woman / rotring pen drawing on paper / 3″ x 4″ – 2016
badger / rotring pen drawing on paper / 4″ x 3″ – 2017 / design for ‘T’ shirt transfer print