Search
Items tagged with: pebbleArt
The Art of Stones (12 Photos by Jon Foreman)
Content warning: Which one is your favorite?
Have you ever seen a beach look this good? Jon Foreman turns stones into hypnotic patterns that look like they belong in a dream. In 2025, he traveled from Wales to Taiwan to create these 12 masterpieces. Some pieces were made with Layla Parkin, and they are all absolutely stunning. Check out these 12 photos of his land art!
🔗 Follow Jon Foreman on Instagram
🌀 1. Revolve — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales
This dark stone spiral pulls your eyes right into the center. It looks like a giant fingerprint left by nature on the sand.
Jon Foreman: Although I love it when a big wave takes the piece in one, Sometimes the gently lapping waves can provide an extra element to a piece. In this case the small crease lines in the sand – a reaction to the stones being there provide an extra essence of motion to a work that already suggests that. I respond to nature, nature responds to me. A conversation, if you like.
☀️ 2. Circuitus Meridiem — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales
This one looks like a glowing stone sun. The white pebbles in the middle pop against the darker stones on the outside. It is the perfect way to welcome the morning.
🌈 3. Sol Colorum — Freshwater West
This is a rainbow made of rocks. The colors shift from orange to blue so perfectly you might think the beach was painted. Nature has the best color palette.
🌗 4. Halved — Lindsway Bay, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire
This piece looks like a giant pebble split in half. It shows how different colors and textures can fit together in perfect balance. It is like a stone yin and yang.
🍂 5. Lapis Folium — Gann Estuary (Dale), Wales
A 3D leaf made entirely of red stones. It looks like nature forgot a giant autumn leaf on the sand. The detail is simply amazing.
🔘 6. Augere — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales
A huge circle with a bright center. The layers of stones make it look like the art is glowing from the inside. It is hard to believe these are just normal rocks.
🌊 7. Ripple — Qixingtan Beach, Hualien, Taiwan
This looks like a black and white galaxy on the shore. It is as if a drop of water hit the beach and turned into stone. It was created for a festival in Taiwan.
Jon Foreman: As a Ripple, through water undulates and expands, as does the flow of this artwork. Symbolic of the expansion of the festival and the waves it makes, bringing people together from across seas and transcending languages. This piece is also an evolution and expansion on the piece created by myself and Terry in Hualien last year. Spent a few days on this, very slow work, but luckily the sun was behind the clouds this time, so it wasn’t as hot as last time!, we built this piece to last for the festival time so between every large stone there are three small pebbles that act as a tripod for the next stone, even the smallest stacks feature this technique. it was very slow work by comparison to my more floor based work. The overall form is influenced by the ripple effect caused by a droplet in water. I have a fascination with creating flow with such solid objects as stones. I think there’s more to be experimented with for this form.
💥 8. Colos Chaos — Freshwater West
Hundreds of tiny stone towers standing together in a starburst. This collaboration with Layla Parkin looks like a stone explosion that stopped in time. Do not sneeze near this one!
Jon Foreman: It was quite a rush towards the end as the sun was going down, I would have liked to have adjusted some bits even after looking at pictures now, even so I’m still happy with it!
🌙 9. Shell Moon — Sandy Haven Beach, UK
A crescent moon made from hundreds of shells. It is delicate, beautiful, and fits perfectly with the golden sunset light. Truly magical stuff.
🌟 10. Radiance — Freshwater West
A sunburst pattern with a hollow middle. The sharp stone rays look like they are reaching out for the ocean. It is simple but very powerful.
🐚 11. Fossil — Lindsway Bay, Pembrokeshire, UK
This is a massive drawing in the sand. It looks like a giant prehistoric creature left a mark behind. It is huge compared to the person walking nearby!
〰️ 12. Fluidform — Pensarn, Wales
Long rows of white stones that look like frozen waves. The way they ripple across the sand is very calming. It is the perfect way to end this collection.
More: 18 Stunning Land Artworks by Jon Foreman!
Which one is your favorite?
Stone By Stone (20 Photos)
Discover the amazing world of Jon Foreman, where nature and art come together in incredible land sculptures.
Using stones, driftwood, and other natural materials, Foreman turns everyday landscapes into stunning works of art. He lives in Wales and creates art that shows how people and nature can work together. Each sculpture is carefully arranged with beautiful patterns and shapes that highlight the wonders of the natural world.🔗 Follow Jon Foreman on Instagram
Lux Tenebris
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!
Crescent
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.
Dissicio Quadratum
Created at Freshwater West.
Circumflexus
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.
Fluidus
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
Acervus Circlus
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.
Expletio Duo
Jon Foreman: Created at Freshwater West. This piece is 1 in a 3 part set that I’m trying to get made. Many of you will have seen “Expletio” which is a single spiral using these same colours and this fractal style of working. I shall at some stage be creating the third in the set which will be a triple spiral in the same style! Anyway this one proved more fiddly than the previous version, I think I must have downscaled it a bit and that coupled with cold/windy weather made for difficult work. Got there in the end though!
Druid Spiral
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!
Sinking Circle
Jon Foreman: Although I don’t consider myself an especially good photographer I’m very happy with how this one turned out, aside from the work itself looking good (and with this angle showing the incline more clearly) aside from the work I think I caught the atmosphere of the day which isn’t often very obvious in my work! Also love the water making the edge of the stones glow and they disappear into the distance, I’m all about depth within the sculpture why not outside the sculpture too.
Lumen
Jon Foreman: Created at Freshwater West. A couple of years back I created a very similar piece to this, the only difference being that the stones were previously placed flat. I feel the sense of movement is enhanced with them placed this way really radiating outward as they disperse.
Nether Flower
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!
Above Below
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!
Shroom Sheet
Jon Foreman: Created at Freshwater West I’ve done quite a lot now with shrooms, yes they’re stones balanced on sticks, no – its not as difficult as it seems! .. until you start putting them very close together… But until creating this piece I’ve yet to work with them while incorporating colour (or more precisely colour change) as with this one! I’ll likely do more at some stage!
Obnatus Luna
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!
Flos Tholus
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.
Direct
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!More: 9 Leaf Sculptures That Stir the Soul in the Forest (Art by Jon Foreman)
What do you think about this art by Jon Foreman? Which one is your favorite?
