Tony Plant

Tony Plant

Bedruthan Blue

Sand that has been raked

4,501 steps

2012

Bio- Tony Plant is an English born artist who specializes in making temporary interventions and drawings in the landscape. After graduating from the Chelsea Art School, he began to increasingly use social media to spread his artwork. Today he has been featured in many publications and art blogs throughout the world.

Artist statement- "Tony Plant is an artist in a really pure sense of the word, making these things is as natural as breathing, they are the same as the waves or the wind"
Marcel Theroux, The Guardian 2013

Background- “Plant works at low tide, when the sand is wet, which is optimal for raking patterns that will stay put until he is complete with the pattern. Using only a common yard rake, he maps out swirls and curls, in forms that look flawless from elevated vantage points. His footprints are too subtle to be seen from a distance, so the patterns look as if they were mysteriously placed there by some unknown instrument. He then captures the land art installations on film, surrounded by the natural beauty of the land and sea.” (via Inhabitat)

Plant’s sand landscapes really give off the sense of nature’s constantly changing state. Being raked out of sand most do not last very long as the ocean and wind wash away the shapes. The swirling shapes help produce the sense of how mother nature is always in a cycle of change.