ARCADE SANDSCAPE: GARDEN GALLERY: EDINBURGH ARTS FESTIVAL AUG 2008

Mural constructed from Portobello beach sand and acrylic medium

Arcade Sandscape reflects the bygone days of beach resorts, the quaintness of terraced guest houses, memories of candy floss and donkey rides, all the childhood summers bathed in the glorious technicolour of nostalgia. And lurking at the opposite end of the beach, beyond the faded Victorian grandeur, a beacon of flashing lights and cold shadows - the Arcade and the Fairground – suggesting the darkness of Brighton Rock to counter any candy striped confection.
And outside as the Arcade Fruit machines clunk and turn their coloured wheels, the restless sands shift and blow, season to season, cutting across the promenade relentlessly.