'FEATHERS ARE MY BRUSHES SAND IS MY PAINT!'
In October 2011 I was filmed for BBC television in after collecting Alum Bay coloured sands from the ‘Needles Park’ complex, and then with the curator's permission moving on to work on a sand-painting in King Charles 1’s bedchamber at Carisbrooke Castle, on the Isle of Wight where the King was held prisoner awaiting his execution in Whitehall. I was copying a sand picture by Victorian sand artist Edwin Dore of ‘The Needles viewed from Alum Bay’ part of the Museums’ collection of Georgian and Victorian sand-paintings. It is since retiring from...more
