House at Kessingland

'House at Kessingland Beach' - Digital Media - George Roberts July 2017

" Lovely walk from Pakefield to Kessingland along the beach. Paddling your toes in the sea, collecting stones and listening to the cries of Little Terns as they twist and turn in  the sky above the shingle - quite perfect."

Clumps of 'marram grass' photographed in polarised light

For more information on 'marram grass' follow the link -     Marram Grass

Muscari

'Muscari'- mixed media - George Roberts July 2018

Muscari is a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of dense, most commonly blue, urn-shaped flowers resembling bunches of grapes in the spring.
The common name for the genus is grape hyacinth (a name which is also used for the related genera Leopoldia and Pseudomuscari, which were formerly included in Muscari), but they should not be confused with hyacinths. Credit: Wikipedia

Sticks and Stones

'Kindled friendship'  - Redgrave stick installation and mixed media - George Roberts July 2018

Clever-stick

Old-stick

Lolly-stick

Lip-stick

Match-stick

Walking-stick

Shooting-stick

Fiddle-stick

Broom-stick

Drum-stick

Crab-stick

Dip-stick
Candle-stick

Hit me with - your Rhythm-stick

Blak Erik

'Blak Erik - homage to a twat in a pub' - Mixed media- George Roberts June 2018

"'ard, 'Erik 'ard ? -  'ard he invented the word"! 

Gastroart

'Winkles in the fabric of Space-Time' - mixed media - George Roberts - June 2018

"If there were winkles in the fabric of Space-Time

At the Planck scale squid and plaice would rhyme

If the Universe and Albert Einstein could spin on one sharp pin

Might each sardine simultaneously be alive and dead in it's tin?

Perhaps dark matter would even cease to matter?

If cod, god and gravity were resolved in batter".

George Roberts from the book 'A Brief History of Gastropods'

Dolphins and Mr Hockney

'Dolphins and Mr Hockney' - mixed media- June 2018 - George Roberts

Coralline Grag

A piece of Coralline Crag full of Bryazoans and shell fragments - I found in the 1990s on the seashore near Aldeburgh ,Suffolk

 The Coralline Crag rock formation is a series of marine deposits found in and around the North Sea coast of Suffolk. It was laid down during the Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period. Small areas of the rock may be found at Boyton and Tattingstone to the south of Orford as well as offshore at Sizewell. The rock is full of Bryozoan debris.

Bryazoa are a phylum of aquatic colonial invertebrate animals. Individuals in Bryazoan colonies are called zooids. Over four thousand living species are known with only one genus being solitary the rest being colonial.

Crag is a local word for a shelly sand. Historically the crag was used for building and there are a number of abandoned small quarries in and around the area. The tower at St Peter's Church, Chillesford was constructed using the stone. The quarry from whence the stone probably came is just behind the church.

St Peter's Church, Chillesford, Suffolk