This was a thoroughly enjoyable project exploring seaside nostalgia and wellbeing. Born in South Shield's in the 1970's and having lived in Lee On Solent, I have always had an affinity with the Great British seaside. 

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The idea for this piece was to recreate the beach experience from my youth sourcing items from the 1970's which included:

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• Wooden deck chairs and side table

• Buckets, spades and fishing nets

• A picnic blanket, flask and picnic set

• Retro sunglasses, handbag and shoes

• A polaroid camera and postcard of Tenby

• And of course - sand and shells

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I had great fun looking through old photographs of me and my family by the seaside and enjoyed transferring these onto a spray painted striped canvas panel. I also illustrated an ice cream, windmill, flip flops and an ice lolly which were also included in the design of one of the chairs.

 

For the second chair I reproduced a large scale acryllic image of Tenby harbour.  This was my first attempt at using acrylics and producing images on a larger scale.

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