Fife Coastal Trail

Anstruther to Crail.
My second walk, another short walk as I always seem to have somewhere else to be, something I want to change.

The day wasn't so sunny but it was a much needed break away from the rest of my life. The forms, colour and movement inherent in the coastline and the rocks was utterly beautiful. Yes, I am realising that I'm becoming a bit of a nerd to do with rocks and stone.

Images say it all, so...

Boundary

out to sea

And now a few of my favourite images... rocks!

Difficult to believe that this is naturally made, but I love it.

These colours are completely free from manipulation.

Fife Coastal Trail

I have begun walking the Fife Coastal Trail but in stages.

It's beautifully broken down into manageable chunks by Walkhighlands.
Due to not having a great deal of time, I chose an easy, short walk first....
St Monans to Anstruther.

A few images from the day. It was very sunny but the wind cooled it down a little as well as the fact is was in March.

The contours and shapes of the rocks really drew my eye so most of the images I have are of rocks.

Finally! 'Apollo & Dionysus'

After even more sanding with varying degrees of fineness and then onto wet & dry, the sculptures are ready for the wax.

A wee preview of images before fitting them together.

Philosophy module sculpture piece

the beginning

The early stages of the sandstone piece.









This sculpture came about as the practical assessment for my philosophy module during the Masters course. The module itself was called 'Tragedy's Figures, Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy'. An incredibly fascinating subject that involved much reading and inevitably, talking. The idea of making an artwork as part of the assessment process is only in it's second year and I think works really well.

More process images.

Once the sculpture got to this point, I then had to work on it's partner, which is a soapstone piece.

From here on, things started to get a little more complicated because I had to begin working the stone so that they would both eventually fit together.

More Greece, more beauty

The first two images are me playing around on the beach with the stone. Gorgeous day and lovely to wander around by myself making wee sculptures. The large statue is situated outside a museum on the island.

Aegina Island, Greece

I was very lucky to be one of the artists attending an artist's residential on Aegina Island, Greece. What a fantastic place to visit and photograph and sketch and explore and I could go on and on........

The most beautiful blues that I used to gaze at and almost lose myself.

We did a lot of exploring and were taken to an exquisitely old olive grove. Some of these trees are said to be 2000 years old. Breathtaking.

I became completely enamoured with the texture of the wood itself as well as the shapes of the trees.

A Portrait Interlude