DAY 3

23rd July 2026

Port Eynon Bay, Gower

DYDD 3

23 Gorffennaf

Traeth Porth Einon, Gwyr

Artists /Artistiaid:

SARA HOLDEN,

TINA-MARIE CUNNINGHAM,

AND JENNY CHISHOLM

Photographer / Ffotograffydd Prosiect:

PHIL HOLDEN

The Beach Sculpture Festival moved to Port Eynon beach on the third day. Port Eynon bay is surrounded by great natural landscape and a quaint seaside village with shops and cafes. Port Eynon Beach has a large golden sandy beach and many different materials such as coloured pebbles and rocks for use in making sculptures. As well as the local community, there are also lots of holiday visitors here in the summer that eagerly await the festival each year.

The sun again made an early morning appearance with a light breeze, making for a very pleasant warm summer day. The perfect conditions for sand sculpting! The high tide had left the sand just the right consistency to create some really nice carved sculptures. The beautiful coloured rocks and stones at Port Eynon beach are ideal to decorate the sculptures.

Strandline Beetle sculptures are made using grey limestone pebbles and ochre stones over living green maram grass for legs.

These once exinct marine nocturnal insects are rare but can be found again in Wales living in driftwood and hunting sand hoppers during the night! The festival helped people think about materials, textures and colours as well as about endangered species. Children really engaged with finding the right materials to make them look realistic and were so absorbed with the activity.The Festival is inclusive, free and fun for all ages and captured all imaginations.

Had loads of fun, can't wait to do it again!

The Octopus always is a favourite sculpture to shape at Port Eynon

Also follow our waymarking sculptures on the Gower coast path between Mumbles and Rhossili including one at Horton -

See Sculpture on the Coast trail - click here
Dilynwch y Llwybr Cerflun ar y Arfordir - cliciwch yma

A beautiful starfish is carved out of the golden sand and decorated with coloured stones and rocks.

Choosing which colours and stones to use in our starfish sculpture heightened our creativity.

A delicate seahorse is carved out of the sand and decorated with shells.

Sea horse magic once again! Inspired by the rare (but sighted on Gower) Long Snouted Sea Horse.

The event is very relaxing and cool to learn about what is around when we are at the beach!

It was an excellent day!

A fabulous turtle is sculpted from the perfect sand!

The artists were very encouraging! Excellent day!

An environmental awareness about the beach and its marine life was achieved through conversations and while working with the artists. The beach was full of beautiful sculptures in a wonderful plein air gallery. People walking along the shore marvelled at the creations.

The artists packed away the flags and displays ready for the next day of the Beach Sculpture festival tour to Bracelet Bay in Mumbles.

THANK YOU TO OUR KIND SPONSORS BELOW:
Diolch i bawb am wneud ein gwyl cerflunwaith flynyddol mor llwyddiant unwaith eto. DIOLCH I'N EIN HYRWYDDION SY'N GWYBODAETH BOD

The Festival gave children the opportunity to spend time focussed on creative play and learning about different marine species.

This youngster enjoyed making a large scale squid from the soft sand which was ideal for carving the form and details.

Participants expressed their happiness with positive comments through the making, foraging, and finishing their artworks. They took pictures of their art works as beach memories. Participants were interested to learn about the endangered and re-introduced species such as the Sand Lizard and Goldlocks Astor within the area - many said they would be looking out for them now. Others shared their knowledge and understanding of specific marine and shoreline bio-diversity.

Sand Lizards were a popular marine animal to make as a large scale sculpture at Port Eynon. These inquisitive little animals had certainly captured people's imaginations and they were very interested to find all about them in real life.

Another beautiful sea horse crafted by these two young sisters from sand and shells as well as the distinct grey limestone pebbles for decoration.

Fantastic idea!

Wonderful day on the beach, exciting and informative!

To see day 4 of 2026 Festival at Bracelet Bay - click the link at the bottom of this page
I weld gwyl dydd 4 o 2026 yn Bracelet Bay- cliciwch ar y ddolen ar waelod y dudalen hon