Pebble Monument

Walk any Cornish beach and you will find them — quiet towers of stone, built by strangers and left behind. A pebble balanced on a pebble, balanced on another, rising improbably against wind and tide. Nobody asks permission. Nobody signs their name. They simply build, and walk away. These are the monuments of people who loved a place enough to leave something of themselves in it. Celebrating this most instinctive of human acts. A tower of pebbles rises against a ground of the most atmospheric teal — each stone individual in colour, texture and weight. Yellow. Rose. Deep green. Blush grey. Below, a generous scatter of pebbles in every shade fills the foreground, printed, painted and collaged each one has a unique quality, worn smooth by something ancient. This is a painting about the quiet connection between people and place. About the small, unhurried gestures that say "I was here, I noticed this , it mattered to me" Calming, considered and quietly joyful to bring the peace and spirit of the Cornish shoreline into any room it inhabits.

2401 × 2439 px