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“I much prefer not telling you what to think…\u201d<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
Beth Nielsen Chapman said it quite beautifully in her song “Sand and Water” –<\/p>\n
“Solid stone, it’s just sand and water, ..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…<\/p>\n Aid Thomas Meilleha, Malta GC<\/p>\n South Bay, Scarborough, N Yorks<\/p>\n West beach, Littlehampton, W Sussex<\/p>\n Shell bay, Dorset<\/p>\n Studland NT Naturist beach, Dorset<\/p>\n Lulworth Cove, Dorset<\/p>\n Durdle Door, Dorset<\/p>\n Kimmeridge bay, Dorset<\/p>\n Swanage beach, Dorset “..all washed-up..” Gallery, Daisy May’s Arcade, 2 King’s Road East, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 2ES<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Sand and water and a million years gone by…”<\/em><\/p>\n
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