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Life in a stone - a painting of pebbles

Life in a stone - a painting of pebbles

£120.00
£120.00
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Life in a stone - an original painting in watercolour and inks, size 260 x 260mm

Claude Monet said: "There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things."

I think so too. I know I'm not the only one who feels these sentiments. Every pebble has a vastly long geological story to tell. "To see a world in a grain of sand" wrote William Blake. I'm seeing little worlds in every pebble. 

I have included marks on the stones using patterns from nature. The residue from barnacles or microscopic cellular structures, for example. Hints of coral. Marks made by weathering, water, climate and time. 

Perhaps you are a collector of pebbles and stones, too?

See also Stories of the ages.

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