Acrylic and mixed media on cradled wood panel 30x30cm.
 
In an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the coast of Suffolk, there is a privately owned beach with public access. In 2005 two childhood friends, Els and Lida, spent a week in Suffolk after each had been through a year of cancer. On their first long walk along the beach, they picked up some white shells and, sitting down to rest, arranged them around a plant. From that day on, every walk added more shells to a growing line, symbolic of their slow day by day, shell by shell recovery. Twice a year they spend a week repairing and relaying the line and find that many people have added to it. Frail and transitory, like us and those who come and wonder at it, the line is a signal of courage and survival.
 
The 38mm deep sides are painted a very dark contemporary brown, almost black. The painting hangs flush to the wall and doesn't need to be framed.
 
Please note that whilst every effort has been made to make the online photo as close a representation to the original painting as possible, due to differing computer screen calibrations, light and photographing the overall colour may differ slightly in real life.
 
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