9 January 2022

It All Leads to the Bristol Channel and Beyond - visiting and using mud in 2020 and 2021

 

         River Parrett mud - Combwich


Peaks and mounds


Mountains and valleys



Garden Cliff and Pimlico Sands - River Severn mud


Paul Nash territory


Sedimentary - mudstone and siltstone




Mercia Mudstone Group


 Desiccation cracks - River Severn mud in a pill box near Arlingham


Near Littleton-upon -Severn - River Severn mud


Mudflats




Saltmarshes and intertidal zones



Near Oldbury-on-Severn 







Decommisioned Magnox nuclear power station


River Severn mud in the studio


Concrete covered in River Severn mud, peat, cardboard and paint, print of collage that included a River Severn mud splat


Purton Ship Graveyard - River Severn mud




River Severn mud in collages - Harris, Outer Hebrides and in Bristol






Collage prints - River Severn mudsplats, Harris peat splats, plastic packaging, yellow pen


Near Aust - River Severn mud



Gloopy mud


Cracked mud



Tide is out



River Severn mud in Mahyab, an installation that I had in my home during Lockdown 1 - April 2020


Dried, cracked River Severn mud on plaster sitting on a pile of peat


River Severn mud drying on plaster


River Severn mud drying on cardboard



The Otherworldly Severn Beach - Severn Estuary



Meandering channels


Mudflats tempting me to walk on them






Mysterious hollows











Dystopian landscape





River Severn bridge pillar with stone and mud