by Adam Buick | Mar 15, 2011 | Firing, Land Art
Between the cliffs and the fields lies a stretch of common land, through which runs the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. Much of the land is now owned by the National Trust. This stretch of wilderness that can seem like a wild landscape of rock, sea and heath is in fact...
by Adam Buick | Feb 17, 2011 | Land Art, Local materials, Research Grant
I am very excited that I have been awarded a Research Grant by the Arts Council of Wales. It means that I can go to the top of hills to think about my understanding of landscape and how my work fits into it. Here is what I proposed: Continuing with the pure jar form...
by Adam Buick | Feb 10, 2011 | Local materials
We went for a walk down to a nearby cove at the weekend. Sitting at the base of the cliff I noticed a trickle of water running out over the bed rock. On closer inspection the rock seemed to be decomposing. It looked like clay. Clay is decomposed rock particularly...
by Adam Buick | Dec 14, 2010 | Inspiration
Just came across this photograph I took last year. It is the view from the track up to my studio. Some days I hardly notice the sea, others I am mesmerised. I have already forgotten how it looked today, tomorrow will be something new.
by Adam Buick | Jun 7, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making
by Adam Buick | Jun 5, 2010 | Earth to Earth, Making
Just below the summit of Carn Treliwyd is a field of bluebells. Today as I tramped my way through them each step sent flying a myriad of insects, among them Damselflies and a Wall Brown Butterfly. I took a different route to the summit and came across another line of...