Theme: Sailors' Crafts

Exhibition: SHELL ART

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Shell Art

Rose and bud

A peach coloured rose made from shells

Shell bouquet

A bouquet of flowers made from a variety of natural coloured shells

Shell garden

An elaborate model of a garden composed of hundreds of tiny shells

Shell obelisks

A pair of obelisks decorated with dramatically coloured shells

Shell tower

A secen-tiered tower containing over 100 flowers made of shells and one butterfly

Sailor's valentine 1

A modern reproduction of a typical sailor's valentine of the 18th Century

Sailor's valentine 2

A modern reproduction of a typical sailor's valentine showing characteristically a heart at the centre

Shell monstrance

A white coral "monstrance" incorporating a shark jaw

Peter Coke

Peter Coke at the time that he played Paul Temple in the eponymous radio serials

Sailor's Valentine

Sailors’ Valentines are the hexagonal shell designs which sailors returning from the West Indies supposedly put together using attractively shaped and coloured shells collected from the Caribbean to present to their wives or girlfriends when they reached home

Examples of Shell Art

This page is part of the Narrative Theme(s): Sailors' Crafts

This page is part of the Online Exhibition(s): SHELL ART