DAY 6

Rhossili Beach

25th August 2025

DYDD 6

25 Awst

Rhosili

Artists /Artistiaid:

SARA HOLDEN,

TINA MARIE CUNNINGHAM

Photographer / Ffotograffydd Prosiect:

PHIL HOLDEN

On the sixth day of our 21st annual Beach Sculpture Festival, the event continued its tour of Gower to spectacular Rhosili /Rhossili Bay. As one of the most beautiful and iconic beaches on Gower, Rhosili has a breathtaking view from both above and on the beach, making the walk along the coastpath very worthwhile to discover what lies at the end! The view of the Worms Head is always absolutely stunning whatever the weather, but it was hot and sunny with crystal clear light; perfect for making some amazing beach sculptures based on marine animals. The natural resources from the beach, such as stones, shells, driftwood were the materials to be used, as well as sand. Some of the sculptures made over the course of the day are captured here as well as comments from those who took part...

There was a steady stream of people arriving on the beach all day eager to participate in the Beach Sculpture Festival.

This young man enjoyed helping create the tail of the large scale Sea Serpent that stretched across the beach.

Amazing creations and very supportive artists! Thank you for a lovely day!

Art and nature conversations with the artists were enjoyed as people worked on their sculptures. Their creativity was enhanced through the festival with inspiration, ideas, using different elements of nature to create marine animal inspired sculptures. An environmental awareness about the beach and marine life was definitely achieved through the festival. There were also lots of discussions about the geology of the beach and participants gained an awareness of sea life through the activity.

The large scale Sea Serpent sculpture begins to take shape on the beach. The participants were very enthusiastic and stayed a long time even in the heat and kept on working or dipped in and out, with a core of people who worked through to the end. As the sculpture was a communal piece
using found natural materials showed how different materials could be used to create large art was
important.

Lovely initiative!

People were also interested to find out about the five piece waymarking sculpture trail along the cliff path between Limeslade, Mumbles and Rhossili that our team of artists created and installed - see sculpture on the coast feature

Our large scale 20 meter sculpture of a Sea Serpent, based on the Worms Head and its mythology was created over the course of the day by many participants.

A large scale starfish was created during the day and worked on by lots of people of various ages, who collected shells, dug out and smoothed its surface and had fun decorating it!

Our boys had a fantastic time creating the big star fish on the beach! Thank you!

Our whole family helped to make the giant starfish and also the sea serpent. We were absolutely happy with the outcome and received great guidance from the artists. It was fantastic activity!

One of the beautiful flags featuring marine animals that a local primary School made in a pre-festival flagmaking workshop that were used to adorn the beach.

The Beach Sculpture Festival was great fun for all ages

A delightful seal sculpture pops up from beneath the sand!

Seals are a regular sighting here so it was an inspiration and a joy to carve one from the soft golden sand for the festival.

Drawing out the shape with a rake and placing stones along the line to create the large scale Sea Serpent.

Shell art! An eye for detail is a must when decorating the arm of a starfish.

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Detail of the Sea Serpent. With a raked design and using rocks from the beach, the outline of the sea serpent is created.

Building a large communal sculpture takes longer than smaller artworks and therefore gives the participants more time to forge new friendships with people they had never met before. Having a common goal and a real sense of completion certainly adds to feelings of well being. Also, the theme of the sea serpent connected everyone to the history and myths of the landscape and enhanced imagination and creativity.

The artists worked with people all day to create sculptures based on marine animals.

The art of mindfulness - the festival was an opportunity to focus on being creative in an outdoor space.

Families worked together to create beautiful sculptures across the shore using the natural materials of sand and pebbles found on the beach.

Environmental art events like this are very worthwhile as they promote thought on the environment whilst making art - we all enjoyed it!

A sea horse was crafted from natural materials found on the beach, highlighting biodiversity, colour, textures and variety.

Great Idea!

The Rhosilli / Rhossili Beach event was a resounding successful finale to the 2025 Beach Sculpture Festival tour across Gower and Mumbles! Everyone had a great time learning about marine species and the art of sculpting! It was a very creative day for everyone including those who participated in making the sculptures as well as those people viewing and photographing the work later in the day. We look forward to running our Beach Sculpture Festival next year on beautiful Gower.

To see Day 1 of 2025 Festival at Bracelet Bay - click the link at the bottom of this page

I weld tudalen 1 o 2025 Gwyl Traeth Bracelet - cliciwch ar y ddolen ar waelod y dudalen hon