Sand Art
Sean Corcoran creates massive sand art drawings with a garden rake on beaches around Ireland and the UK!
Aerial photographs of the artworks are captured using a drone and are available as high quality prints.
A range of these images can be ordered on our ‘Sand Art Prints’ page in a variety of sizes with shipping to Ireland, UK and Europe.
How is Sand Art made?
Many of Sean’s artworks are solo and he is the only person to witness and photograph them. He works all year round in often remote and hard to reach locations. The majority of his work is freehand without the use of string or measuring tapes. Many of his drawings are impromptu as he responds to each individual location.
This is environmental art. Sean chooses the best low tides each month and often only has two or three hours to complete a drawing before the tide returns.
The video above shows the creation of a 300 foot wide sacred symbol called a Sri Yantra. This was part of an international challenge. In order to represent the symbol as accurately as possible Sean’s team in this case included two engineers using GPS guided rovers and 16 satellites with a tolerance of 5mm!
A message from Sean Corcoran
There’s a strange sense of time standing still; self-conscious worldly woes are left behind, as if there is no past or future, just the present. Apart of course for the inevitable tides approach.
I love seeing the reaction from passers-by who might not be exposed to art too often. I have to admit I like to be an anonymous spectator when the artwork is complete and have conversations with anyone who comes along. The conversation is never as honest if they know I’ve made it and some of the comments are priceless!
Collaborative art has become a very important part of my art and life. I love the challenge of trying to connect with a large group of people through art. I find creating beach art with groups to be very rewarding.
Participants often say that the experience is uplifting and therapeutic on many different levels. The fact that the tide will wash it all away creates a poignant atmosphere yet the unity of purpose makes it a joyous occasion. People can connect with themselves and others in a very simple way.
It’s good exercise too, running around in the fresh sea air whatever the weather! Perhaps you’d like to join me on one of our group workshops or community events.
Most of my beach art is created on the Copper Coast but if you’d like to commission me I’d be happy to take on a challenge at your local beach.
Thank you for viewing our sand art page.
BEACH ART ARCHIVE…
We have created a photo record of all the beach art that we’ve created down through the years. You’ll see everything from massive solo drawings in the sand by Sean Corcoran to group events with families, schools, youth groups and work colleagues.
We’ve catalogued over 500 different artworks and we’ve included a single photo of each one in the archive that can be viewed in a photo album on our Facebook page HERE.
Supersonic Sand is an exciting project that combines Electronic Music with Sand Art! Click the image if you’d like to see all of the currently released films and interviews. Supersonic Sand is being co-produced by Rebecca Cappuccini of Viking Promotions and Sean Corcoran of The Art Hand.
Get a print made of this tribute to Sinead O’Connor with proceeds to Amnesty International…https://thearthand.com/nothing-compares-to-you/
Miranda has a workshop with two places available this Saturday morning at 10.30am to 1pm 😍 It can be booked directly with The Art Hand ✋️ Send a WhatsApp if you want more information 😀 A great way to start your day 😍
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Sean’s epiphany moment!
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it, or it's been deleted.Here is a recent donation to our ‘treasury’ from St Joseph, St Benildus & St Mary's Parish. These candles will be put to good use on some of our temporary environmental artworks. However we are wondering….
What do other churches and schools do with their leftover candles?
Do they end up in landfill?
Can they be recycled in anyway?
Can they be melted into larger candles?
We presume that candles this short can’t be used as they are a safety risk and don’t look as pretty as big tall new ones?
We’d appreciate your feedback on this...
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We have a candle workshop in the Larche community in kilkenny. We recycle candles from churches in kilkenny and make new ones, for sale.
When mine go low, I melt them down & pour into tea light cases & any spare jars. I got tealight cases, wicks & wick glue dots off shein & temu, its great as no waste. You can also buy candle molds but I have not tried them yet
Wonderful hoard 🙂
They are safe to burn in the right container. Fascinating to wonder about all the prayers that went into those candles. You could melt them down and dip braided strings of wool into the melted wax and attach finely sifted dirt to them. If you were so inclined 😆
What a treat 😍
My mum used to up-cycle them in the 70's and mix in old wax crayons for colour. I wonder what other interesting things one could put in that might appear as they burned down. Ball bearings might be fun, falling from a crystal candelabra, on to cymbals, gongs, drums, and on to some sort of domino run.
Give them to witches
"This temporary artwork is based on a visual that came to me during a Global Loving-Kindness Meditation Session with Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara at George Washington University Smith Center on Day 109 of the #WalkForPeace. I've never meditated in a group like this before. There were over 20,000 people on the livestream and another 4,000 in the sports hall.
It was challenging to block out the distractions, so for me I found it helpful to visualise something within the darkness, with my eyes closed. It helped me to stay focused. The vertical axis of the artwork represents me and the horizontal axis represents my outstretched arms, connecting me with the circle that represents other people to share love and kindness with around me. Now I'm not saying that this image was like a vision, infact it was consciously created by me in the darkness to help me focus on the instructions from the monk.
I will share a recording of the group meditation in the comments below if anybody would like to try it for themselves. Close your eyes and maybe you too will find a simple visual of your own to help you to focus your mind on the task.
I created this 'temporary treasure' on an old piece of aluminium that I pulled from a skip recently. I used my collection of dominoes, dice, black buttons, diamonds, marbles, ball-bearings and glass globs to recreate the visual I could see in my mind. I paired this with a soundtrack consisting of some brown-noise along with some high frequency radio signal.
The artwork rested on the table overnight and the following day I was lucky enough to capture the sun passing over it before it was dismantled." Sean Corcoran
#PeaceShield #Visualisation #Meditation
Here is the Global Loving-Kindness Meditation Session with Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara at George Washington University Smith Center... www.facebook.com/walkforpeaceusa/videos/799484472433675
I love the way you have created during the meditation. I am the same. I believe we are creating a visual of the energy we feel so I love that its a shield of peace Sean Corcoran
Super cool!
Some flowers last forever
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Absolutely stunning
This temporary artwork can be seen at The Art Hand studio tomorrow anytime between 10 AM and 2 PM ♻️ (X42PY92) ♻️ It will be dismantled after that. #temporarytreasure #impermanence #fleetingmoments
Delighted to reveal that Sean Corcoran is now working as a non-executive Creative Consultant for ACT Waterford at Calmast in the South East Technological University. An environmental outreach programme is being developed based on the 'Crockery Mountain' project including a primary school quiz, a documentary film, a podcast, a radio documentary and academic #CreativeClimateActionm#environmentalartn#STEAMArt #STEAM
Sean’s latest temporary treasure…
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it, or it's been deleted.Very nice 👌