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We are diving into the breathtaking world of Jon Foreman today. This wildly talented artist uses stones, sand, and leaves to build massive masterpieces. It is like street art but the canvas is a sweeping beach or a quiet forest. His work proves that you don’t need paint to create a stunning mural. Prepare to scroll and be completely mesmerized!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Foreman’s work sits in the earthwork and land art family, but with a beachcomber twist: instead of importing materials, he mainly uses what the landscape already offers, then lets sea, wind and time finish the piece. That makes the photograph strangely important — often it becomes the durable part of an artwork that was never meant to stay put. MoMA describes earthworks as art made by shaping land or using natural materials, while Foreman has described his own work as something that evolves and decays with the landscape.
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### 🌊 Lux Tenebris — By Jon Foreman in Pensarn, Abergele Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Pensarn, Abergele. This was the last piece I made in 2021! I was glad to have gotten the chance to work on a large scale again, it had been a while! As ever I had an idea that changed as I progressed but I love that this one has curves going horizontally and vertically with a kind of half pipe effect (a curved ramp of stones either side). Also very lucky to have had the chance to capture the sea engulfing it. Although it was coming in very fast it was coming very calmly which allowed me to get plenty of photos, got my feet wet for this shot!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Pensarn is not just a convenient pebble supply. Conwy County Borough Council identifies it as a Site of Special Scientific Interest with a vegetated shingle bank, where tough maritime plants survive salt, wind and constant habitat shifts. So this temporary stonework is sitting inside a living conservation system, not on an empty stage.
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### 🌙 Crescent — By Jon Foreman in Lindsway Bay, Pembrokeshire Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Lindsway Bay, Pembrokeshire. I’m so used to following the circle round further that its hard to break the habit. Glad to have managed it with this one though! It really feels like it merges into the sand, which is something that I’m not sure I’ve succeeded in doing in the past. At least not as well as this one.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Lindsway Bay is a tide-table kind of studio: it is accessible only by coastal path or across fields from St Ishmaels, and the wide working beach appears best at low tide. That means the artist is not only arranging stones — he is racing a moving clock.
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### 🔲 Dissicio Quadratum — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West Wales 🏴
Created at Freshwater West.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Freshwater West is not a gentle studio floor. Visit Pembrokeshire calls it a south-westerly facing surf beach with the county’s best waves, but also warns that strong rip currents occur there. The same energy that makes the beach dramatic for surfers is also the force that can erase a stone drawing without asking permission.
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### ⭕ Circumflexus — By Jon Foreman in Llano, Texas USA 🇺🇸
**Jon Foreman** : Created for Llano Earth Art Fest Texas. This is the most intensive work I’ve created and took four days to complete! I initially started with the largest stones making the back of the circle, as the stones got smaller I began to realise the time that would be involved. I’d love to know how many there actually are! Photo by Laurence Winram Photography.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** This was not just a one-off “pretty rocks” event. Llano Earth Art Fest is home to the World Rock Stacking Championship, and Texas Highways reports that organizers created the first National Rock Stacking Championship in 2015 before it grew into the world-level contest. Foreman’s four-day circle landed in a place where balancing and arranging stone is treated almost like a public sport. Read more about LEAF’s rock-stacking roots here.
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### 🪼 Fluidus — By Jon Foreman in Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Yes it looks like a jellyfish, no its not meant to be one. I’m not trying to suppress any imagination but for me I’m essentially trying to create something that doesn’t yet exist so that attachment to something that does exist gets on my nerves haha also feels like its oversimplifying the work a bit… But call it what you want haha!
This one was actually created before “**Peruersum** ” (The 4 day piece created at LEAF) and is what Peruersum was based on. The difference being that I didn’t have the time fill a full circle for this one so I got the opportunity at LEAF. I love creating the familiarity between pieces of work without directly repeating something. Having said that, i don’t know that I could directly repeat a piece of work without it becoming a tiny bit different!
Also the sand was really annoying that day and every time I put a stone into the sand it created the cracks you can see between the stones, interesting effect i suppose
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### 🎯 Acervus Circlus — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Freshwater West. I love working like this, finding colours that contrast well and placing on top of one another. Very satisfying work to do, showing freshwater Wests colours in a different way, although I usually add white too I thought amongst these white may stand out too much.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** That “Freshwater West colour palette” is geology doing the sorting. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park explains that local Old Red Sandstone includes red mudstones, siltstones, sandstones, conglomerates and green sandstones. In other words, Foreman’s beach palette can be read as millions of years of sediment, not a paint chart.
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### 🌀 Druid Spiral — By Jon Foreman in Druidston Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Druidston I love working with the slate at this beach, definitely has a different vibe and colour, I’ll have to get back there again soon!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Druidston is a very literal edge-of-time canvas. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park notes that Quaternary deposits can form entire cliffs at Druidston Haven, while Visit Pembrokeshire describes a beach enclosed by steep cliffs, natural arches and caves where visitors can be cut off by the incoming tide. Foreman’s spiral is temporary, but the coast around it is a slow archive of ice-age and wave-made change. Explore Druidston Haven here.
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### 🌸 Nether Flower — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Freshwater West. Couldn’t resist sharing this angle with the shadows! This one got a little bit messy in the middle because of the nature of the placement in the space available. I have to start in the middle and slot the next layer behind the previous so the more I add the less space there is in the small “hole” I made for this. So yeah they got a little bit squashed but I can live with that!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** With land art, documentation is not just “content” — it is often the only long-term home the piece gets. Foreman has said he keeps a digital record, but does not have to store the finished work because the artwork evolves and disappears over time. That flips the usual art-world logic: the collector-friendly object is replaced by process, place and memory.
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### 🍄 Above Below — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Created at Freshwater West. Another mushroom creation, couldn’t resist making use of the massive branch of driftwood. Again these are just stones balanced on sticks accept where they go over the driftwood. A fun one for sure… More mushrooms to come!
**💡 Mushroom Fact:** Real mushrooms are only the visible “fruiting” moment of a much larger organism. Kew explains that beneath mushrooms, truffles and crusts lies mycelium: a hidden network of fungal filaments that explores soil, breaks down organic matter and helps recycle nutrients. Foreman’s title “Above Below” accidentally fits fungal biology perfectly.
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### 🌑 Obnatus Luna — By Jon Foreman in Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : These stones are often buried under the sand when there’s been particularly high tides so I have to hope they’re not buried every time!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** The moon connection here is more than poetic. NOAA explains that the Moon’s gravity creates tidal forces that produce high and low tides, with many coasts experiencing two of each most days. So when Foreman waits to see whether the stones have been uncovered or buried, the Moon is part of the studio crew.
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### 🌺 Flos Tholus — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : At Freshwater West. The only plan I had was to make triangles that go from large in the middle to small on the outside, which, in essence is what i did. However it does really resemble the flower of life when seen from above. You’ll have to wait for that shot though! Stay tuned.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** The “flower of life” is not just a pretty nickname; it belongs to a long history of repeated-circle geometry. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art describes it as an overlapping circle grid whose repetitive design is centuries old. Foreman got there through triangles and beach stones, which is exactly the kind of accidental geometry land art is good at revealing.
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### ➡️ Direct — By Jon Foreman in Poppit Sands Wales 🏴
**Jon Foreman** : Direct, 2025. Created fairly recently (08/09/2025) at Poppit sands, a first for me making stoneworks. Had a great time that week with a bunch of Land Art friends, more work to come from that time and more shots of this work too! P.S its pretty big, those far strands of stones are longer than they look, its just the angle!
**💡 Nerd Fact:** Poppit Sands is already a line in the landscape before any artist arrives: it sits at the mouth of the Teifi Estuary and marks the start or end of the 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Path. So a work called “Direct” was made on a beach that literally functions as a route marker for walkers crossing the Welsh coast.
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### 👇 Below — By Jon Foreman in Lindsway Bay, Wales UK 🇬🇧
**Jon Foreman** : Wanted to do this one for a while, great to do this drawing style again and get lost in the process. Good weather always helps too. This illusion/composition isn’t nearly as complex as you’d expect, just a bunch of circles really. Then I just add in all the patterns like many of my previous works. There is however a mistake which is very easy to spot, I’ll leave that for you guys to work out.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** A giant sand drawing like this belongs to the same broad family as geoglyphs: large designs made on the ground from earth materials. National Geographic explains that geoglyphs can be made by adding or removing earth, dirt or rocks. The big difference is climate: desert geoglyphs can last for centuries, while a Welsh beach drawing may only get one tide cycle.
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### 🍄 Mushroom Path — By Jon Foreman in Druidston Wales 🏴
**💡 Mushroom Fact:** Real fungal “paths” can be surprisingly geometric too. Britannica explains that fairy rings form when underground mycelium grows outward in a circular mat, with fruiting bodies appearing near the edge — and some rings can widen for hundreds of years. The hidden fungus is doing the drawing underground.
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### 💥 Explosia — By Jon Foreman in Freshwater West, Wales UK 🇬🇧
**Jon Foreman** : Often I get to a location not knowing what I’m about to create, this was one of those days. Upon starting all I had in mind was to start with big stones and work my way down to small stones. After a while it became apparent that this was turning into a work very similar to that of **Dietmar Voorwold** (who btw you should all check out cause his work is awesome!) anyway my point is there are things that I do in land art such as playing with scale/ colour that lead me to places that have already been discovered and it was completely unintentional for it to look like his work, I tried to then add my own style to it by dispersing the stones. Once I got so far I had to finish it having spend a good few hours on it already. Anyway I hope its seen more as a nod to an awesome artist than me copying his work.
**💡 Nerd Fact:** This “accidental echo” is a classic land-art problem: if two artists use the same local rules — found stones, colour sorting, size gradients and no imported paint — their work can converge without copying. Dietmar Voorwold’s archive, Creations in Nature, shows how broad that shared natural-material language can be.
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