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Blues, St Ives and The Tate

17 Mar

The sun shone today so we went to St Ives on the train. Just look at the vibrant blues of sea and sky!

First view of St Ives from the train

Tide in as we walk into town

Just loved the Outi Pieski exhibition at Tate St Ives.

Duodji is a Sámi word meaning art, handicraft or home-craft. Outi Pieski created the beautiful ‘three-dimensional painting’ Beavvit / Rising Together Il with women duojárs (duodji practitioners) using traditional Sámi shawl-crafting techniques.

Porthmeor Beach from inside Tate St Ives

The Foremothers’ Hats of Pride

Delightful cushion in the video room

Tide out as we are leaving to catch the train home

What a day full of beauty we have had!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 17, 2024 in art, Cornwall, craft, environment, Happiness, nature, Postaday 2024

Tags: craftivism, duodji, Eeva-Kristina Nylander, Outi Pieski, Porthmeor Beach, Sami, Sami philosophy, The Foremothers' Hats of Pride

St Ives, Pages of the Sea and Peace

11 Nov

We’ve been in St Ives today for the Pages of the Sea event initiated by Danny Boyle to commemorate 100 years since the Armistice was signed and WW1 came to an end. It was one of thirty such events on beaches around Britain today. My choir was singing. Several of us wore white poppies which symbolise two important things. The white poppy is to remember ALL the dead, those of all nationalities caught up in the horror of war as soldiers or civilians and to show our commitment to working for Peace.

St Ives when we arrived

Flowers left at low tide to be taken as the tide came in

The sand art at Porthmeor, courtesy of WildWorks. Captain Edward ‘Teddy’ Hain (15 August 1887 – 11 November 1915)

Waiting for the tide to wash away the image of the soldier

Being washed away by the incoming tide

One of the soldiers being remembered today and, on the back, a beautiful and very moving poem written for today by Carol Ann Duffy

St Ives as we were leaving

Other beaches in Cornwall had sand drawings of soldiers too.

Lieutenant Richard Charles Graves-Sawle. On Porthcurno Beach

On Perranporth Beach. Photo by Naomi Smith

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 11, 2018 in Cornwall, Peace, Photography, poetry, Postaday2018

Tags: Bloggers for Peace, Bloggers4Peace, Carol Ann Duffy, Danny Boyle, Pages of the Sea, Porthcurno Beach, Porthmeor Beach, sand drawing

A Walk Around St Ives

20 Oct

We went to St Ives by train and walked around streets we had not investigated before. Join us on this beautiful warm Autumnal stroll. Click on any photo for the caption and for the bigger picture.

St Ives Harbour

Plants growing in the wall

Man on a bench

Porthmeor Beach

Stones and clouds

Church on St Ives Head

Carn Brea from St Ives

Porthmeor Beach

More playing in the water and on the beach

Shop sign

Pretty garden with black cat

Lighthouse with reflection

Sun on Godrevy Lighthouse from the station

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 20, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, St Ives

Tags: Carn Brea, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives Harbour

Weekly Photo Challenge – Work of Art

22 May

We visited Tate St Ives today. Here are two photos – the first of Art in Architecture as Porthmeor Beach is reflected in the curved glass of the award- winning gallery, and second, the same beach seen directly as Art in Nature. It is stunning either way on a gloriously sunny day as we caught it between the showers.