Merike Sein Artist | Beachcomber | Mixed Media | Sculpture | Herne Bay UK
Creating artwork and sculpture from beachcomber finds, mixed media and painting.
- the watcher, looker, reader, beachcomber, scavenger of free things, painter, sculptor - giving found things a different status.
I was always encouraged from a very young age to watch and look; mum used to watch more than speak, elbow on knee, and chin resting in hand. I find myself adopting the same pose. And looking. Somehow, all the looking information stays with you I think; then at the right moment some of it clicks together to start a journey to create something new and evolving.
There are some rules you can learn, but it is what is inside you that makes the rules work, or sometimes not, and knowing the difference.
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