Two bell shaped glass jars filled with multicoloured sands arranged in patterns. In the left is a maypole-like swirl of grey, white, pink, red and yellow sand. On the right - this is actually a candlestick - the sand is in earthy tones and arranged to show a picture of the Needles sea stacks.

Two bell-shaped sand jars with florentine patterns in multicoloured sands.

A label from the bottom of a sand bell which reads ‘Isle of Wight CURIOSITY arranged with GENUINE SANDS from the famous coloured cliffs of ALUM BAY

Another label from the bottom of a jar. This is bright red and shaped like a wax seal and reads ‘ALUM BAY COLOURED SANDS SOUVENIR’

A little bit of #geotourism and #geosouvenirs. I’m fascinated by this sand art from Alum Bay (and elsewhere). It combines my love of pigments, geology and tat. #sandart