Seashore Specimens (iii). 'I found so many fascinating specimens as I walked along the beach in the sunshine.'
 
This is an original one-off assemblage, in a hand painted wooden box-frame.
Clara has delicately layered her collection of beachcombing finds over a sea-green hand-marbled paper panel. In the lined tin-lid is a painted handmade paper ammonite which I created using cotton linter pulp. She has been very successful this week and has a great many treasures to display including interesting seashells, pebbles, seaweed, and even fossilised shark teeth, (still very sharp!).
In the lower corner of Clara’s annotation panel is a white antique shoe button set in a swirl of amber coloured vintage embroidery silk. The dried seed head at the top of the marbled panel is a bit of a mystery: I don’t know what it is, but I love its rich brown colour and its curled shape….
 
This work was included in A Curious Collection; my 2024 solo show at Sock Gallery Loughborough, as part of:
MISS CLARA KNIGHT’S CURIOUS COLLECTIONS: SEASHORE SPECIMENS
Miss Clara Knight, (1823-1910), was a young lady possessed of a particularly independent nature and an avid collector of all things antiquarian. Accompanying her father, an eminent Professor of Archaeology she travelled the length and breadth of the country - as they searched for wonders of antiquity, Clara compiled treasured collections of her own.
These groups of objects were found in various places along the South Devonshire coastline when Clara and her father were staying as guests of relatives; Mr Idris Knight, and his wife, Cordelia, and their small son, William. Clara found her stay to be ‘utterly delightful’ and spent a great deal of her time happily searching along the seashore and the clifftops for fascinating finds.
 
Please note this is a delicate one off piece of artwork and cannot be re-created. 
 
Dimensions: frame L36cm x W36cm, D3.5cm
Not suitable for children.
Price £285
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