Cockle Shells And A Labyrinth

Thirty one years ago I was working on a local environmental programme, The Rosehill Quarry Project, a community-led scheme to clear and renovate an old quarry near the city centre and turn it into a nature reserve and leisure area for local people. One of the things we did was to work with Welsh prehistorian, Dewi Bowen, to cut a Cretan labyrinth into the turf and line it with cockle shells, a local resource from the Gower Peninsula cockle industry. Over the years, people have gathered to maintain the labyrinth and there was a work group just a week or so ago.

The labyrinth after last week’s renovation. Photograph by Martin Slucutt.

I did the drawing above onto newspaper with pastels, charcoal and chalk, from the first viewing point on the path up to Pantycelyn Road.

Tags: #artforsale, #ArtistsofTwitter, #artistsontwitter, #Twitart, #Welshart, @RosieScribblah, @Waleslover, @womensart1, @WomensArts, @wordpressdotcom, art, Artfinder, cockle shells, creativity, Dewi Bowen, drawing, Gower Peninsula, kunst, labyrinths, Rosehill Quarry, Swansea, The Rosehill Quarry Project