VIDEO: Worthing artist uses beach as canvas – pictures
ARTIST and photographer Jamie Stokes takes his inspiration from Worthing beach, creating stunning designs at low tide.
Armed with string and tent pegs he marks out a pre-prepared design on the sand before building a sculpture using pebbles.
Click on the view gallery link to see larger versions of the thumbnail images.
"All the designs I do have to be properly thought through," Jamie explained.
"I rescale them the day before I go down to the beach.
"The recreations of crop circles are little one-inch designs in a book I have and these need to be rescaled up to about 20 to 30 feet wide, depending on the design."
Crescent Road resident Jamie, 32, has been creating land art for the last four years and was originally inspired after watching people writing in the sand on the beach.
He said: "I thought that I'd give it a go, but try and further that idea a little by using stones.
"The first one I did was to write 'Worthing Beach' in stones, which measured 40ft long with 4ft tall letters.
"Further inspiration came to me when I was studying my diploma in photography and I saw a book by Andy Goldsworthy."
A renowned British land artist, Goldsworthy is known for working with nature, from colourful leaves and petals, to stones and sticks to create his works.
Jamie follows the same principles, he said: "As I'm a land artist, everything I use to create these pieces has to be from what is found in it's immediate, natural environment, the stones on Worthing Beach is my medium, the beach itself is my canvas."
All his measurements are made with his feet and he moves the pebbles around with a wheel barrow.
The work is created between May and October, but during the winter Jamie experiments with smaller designs in his home studio.
He has ambition to take his work to beaches around the world.
Click here to watch Jamie's stone animation film.
Find out more about Jamie's work at his website www.land-artist.com
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