Mudlarking the River Thames - The River as a source of inspiration

[Music] [Music] [Music] hi everyone it's Saturday the 23rd of February it's another misty morning here on the Thames so atmospheric the tide is on the way out and I'm on my way to meet sy fines and we're going to see what we find low tide is about 20 past 11:00 and it's now almost nine o'clock but it's a nice low tide so the tide is already out quite a bit it's a good job that Simon is a mud lover I'm letting him go first and in his footprints all right mud lovers Oh how's it looking [Applause] Wow this is what you call mud [Applause] down here is a nice chunky little stopper I've just found this bottle it's broken it's got on it Barrett's gigantic and I've heard a rumor that cycling's can make a glass out of this by cutting the breakage of it off I very much very much like to see this so I'm going to show it to him and see if he'll agree to do that for me [Applause] I expect you can see what I'm looking at a nice little pipe Bowl in the 1700s I've just down here I can see part of a coin and on closer examination it's actually a French coin and there is a story behind this which I will tell you in my roundup later very interesting story about these partial French coins that sometimes you find on the foreshore here chard is looking so stunning today just looked at [Applause] I just pulled out a big coin here who's wrong that's bigger than one well me said oh wow Isis Donna [Music] George the third pinning I'm so happy with that in it what do it clear that absolutely stunning yeah just answered 1803 I think I got on that watch liège know what if ii know but it's got no pit on the date look i even 18 nothing that could be quite rare but if that's why I that's what I suspect you might be even be I'm up here jumping the gun here but it looks like it might be am misprint on the date yeah actually even a little bit hundred nightly I'm happy with that I can then call it quits now yeah they did in newer currency but because this is well over 200 years old that is such a beautiful portrait that's one of the best Georgian coin yeah it looks practically new yeah Happy Days well done you okay wait just you just pick a spot and have a look and just complete luck now here it's a tiny little [Music] that's fine for your delectation is part of a buckle now it's quite an early one I think it's probably probably three four hundred year I'll buckle parts of this is the middle section that would have swiveled so you're missing the big bit on the outside you can see the top there where it would have inlaid into a brass Georgian buckle maybe a bit earlier I'll show you a complete version and so you get what I mean yeah pretty cool suppose it's lasted so long because it's made of iron these bits that's why we find buckles without the swivel a bit in the middle this is this is the smoothly bit that's one [Music] now again here I found a broken bottle and on it it's got the star mineral water company limited Whitstable it would be beautiful if it was whole and it looks like it was a cod bottle and probably some kids broke it to get the marble out but I don't see if SCI fines can do is magic on that turn it into a handy jar for keeping pens in or a glass or something [Applause] [Music] well the title page sorry buddy actually it's my stick it just made it so it's not an inside [Music] so let's have a look and see what Simon found today out on the foreshore yep so I think my star find will be Georgian penny sorry half penny baton from 1807 isn't it yeah it's got really nice portrait and also you can see the day on there as well you know 1807 years I thought originally there might actually be a misprint but we could just see a really faded and seven there so I'll I should clean up quite well and the bust is pretty perfect so then you've got Prytania on the other side and like a ridge around the air and use there as well it's fine usual Wow yes it really good names I'm really happy with that right stuff um bit of pottery this is Bonnie this lock is the base of a bin of mine it's got that kind of salt glazed feel to it and you know be you know hang thrown the filter it's implicit this one subscribe hand thrown filter not reassure the agent this one but yeah you can actually see the fingerprint marks there the lines that they'd they're actual fingers really yeah [Music] we can get feel for the person that made it yeah fingerprints in him which is quite nice still survived after all these years real connection to the pastor's know when you can see a fingerprint yeah absolutely and yeah the general bits is I showed the buckle here that's the bit of weight the the swimmer which I'll call it and this is part of a another buckle you can see there's also a all be over I even be a little rose or that decoration there but that would have feared in there and that would have swivels and so you've got maybe two-thirds of our complete shoe buckle which is quite nice hopefully you got the half cup French franc for a math 1955 there which I explained a little bit about earlier so that's always me and if you have the bits of lead that's got um I think it's might be a little because it looks like why even have part of a coconut which i think is a sign of probably James I think of something head so this is quite an early seal I think yeah it's definitely a lid seal that's quite nice and another little it's still there which is pretty and main key these are lovely will be a mystery iron so everyone's got any theories about what these were used for they're quite there's quite thin copper but whether they were used for something to do on the boats or whether they're actually main you used to make coinage not reassuring that it's a bit of a mystery but there was quite loving in one pack so maybe it's just a docker making washers for something it quite utilitarian or perhaps perhaps are worth making their own coinage because you know you did get quite a few random tokens and stuff but unfortunately what we've got here is the remnants of that process so if anybody got any theory about why we find so many of these in one particular patch then feel free to leave a comment below alright so here we get a flip around and we're gonna show you what next valid so now I'm going to show you my meager compared to Simon's I didn't find a great deal but I'm always happy to find my pipes and in this particular area of portal quite a lot of pipes dating back to the 17th and early 18th century this one is the oldest one and it's got a nice little bit nice little bit really around the edge and that's probably from the late 17th century so that's a nice pipe here we've got a few other point bowls there's water here actually with a really nice clear maker's mark on it on this side there's got tea it's a very definite team there and on the other side is an AH comb so TR during that period of time makers used to put their marks on the side of the spur or heel and then later on they started putting them on their chests em so a few pipes and here is my partially cut French coin from around about the 1950s I think and there's an interesting story behind this thanks to Steve Bricker who told us the story back in the 50s when the French sent over some coins were lots of coins over to England to be melted down if they were probably going out of circulation at the time some of the sailors realized what was going on and broke the bags of these coins open and spent them went on holiday with them so when the French cottoned onto this they cut them in half or in quarters so that the sailors know get away with some reason use of the points so hence why find partial cut coins I've got some pearl wear which I am very very fond of I use that for making my fish and we met somebody on the foreshore who gave me a present very big chunk oh thank you very much I think it was Glen yeah Glen so thanks for that Glen know what else I got I've got a nice little mother-of-pearl but Ernie just agrees him being in the middle as well quite interesting a coin from the early 20th century as a sixpence Georgia v Georgia the business expense but I think my favorite oh and there's also a little tiny bit of pipestem here and it still got some of the red wax on the end that they used to put on the very end in people's mouths I suppose it made it a little nicer to put in your mouth I think it stopped of sticking to you yeah exactly so there's that little bit of red wax there and these two bottles which I've heard that Simon can do something pretty good with these I'm hoping he's going to cut the tops off to create some very original glasses that I can use at home this one is Barrett's gigantic Sony's gigantic yeah and it's got some here it's got a bottle it's got London fret oh I don't Barrett's info this one here which is star mineral water company from Whitstable exactly very good and thanks for joining me again Nick and uh yeah get to see you on the course show again soon yeah right so as promised I'm gonna take Nick's top off these bottles and I'm out in the garden snake it's a beautiful day and the thing makes a bit of noise it's a bit messy so I came out to the garden to take the tops off these bottles I've got one of my own as well that I found and it's got a really nice picture of a train they're not sure if you can make that out but once it's been cleaned you can probably see a little bit better and as some of these bottles are a little bit sick as we call because they've got a kind of misty feel to it nope it's clear lacquer make these come up really nice this one's got a bit of a crack in it there so I'm hoping it won't spread but we can't find out when we give it a go so here's what I'll be using today your basic tile cutter and weapons ears there's the disc there that'll rotate and this little reservoir of water here keeps that we all call stops it from overheating so let's fire up let's get cutting [Music] so that was good all three survived tops are off so now I'm going to use the grinding stone just to finish them off a little bit then put some varnish on I'll show you what they turn out like [Music] [Music] so the grinder was a bit too harsh it was chipping away at the glass so I decided to step away from that Houston to some regular sandpaper so by doing this we get rid of any sharp edges and then it's ready for a little varnish so you can see how pitted and a bit scratch they look but I'm gonna put some varnish on now just to finish them off and it'll still keep some nice textures and you know shows these have got a bit of age to it these are really clean they're just spend I just clean the leaves out so a little bit of varnish should um yeah just finish them off and I see get rid of that scratched feel and make him look a lot more transparent and and then really beautiful so there here we go it's just clear lacquer stupid ladies at a time always come back to it and it dries pretty much instantly as well just caught this one's got somewhat battle scars going on there it's kind of lovely so here we all finished now just finish spraying them up with a bit of varnish and turn that look gray I can imagine a little candle going in there maybe or just usually for paintbrushes or pens or anything you want really go on the kitchen have a few utensils in in the Midian uses for these I think they're really cool I hope Nick likes him well there there there next ones there and this is my one with the Train on show you close-up of that in a minute when he drives see there's definitely worth saving that one man got a beautifully all pictorial the Train booth in cow Deptford [Music] now you may recall that Simon is going to cut up some bottles for me and a very excited because here he is and oh my gosh there it is thank you I love those very very clever and what else do you make with your river fines well on the same theme as the bottles because I got such beautiful embossing I've discovered a way to make prints using the actual their letters and all the pictorials on the side of this bottle so why do is create prints and then overlay them on top of each other and they create some really nice interesting abstract pieces of art based on the old names of the bottles and the in the places such as bricklayers arms and all those emotive areas and also on the poison bottles you've got all the different strengths and lines and different dimples and stuff it makes a lovely texture and beautiful colors really pop you can layer them up and see how I'll show you a few examples of those as well and hopefully they'll be featured in the total tens exhibition coming up this year because there's gonna be a little gallery space that we might be able to use so yeah keep your eyes open for that and also my other little thing that I like to do which I've just started doing so be gentle he's creating or turning should I say Tim's found wood into bowls so this is got a choir hasn't got a very deep dish on this one because the way that he was actually created and I've just bought myself a new chuck plate that goes on the ends I hope if I can make some more usable bowls but already up with this one it's a beautiful color on that seems to work out all right and that's driftwood that you picked up down on the Thames for sure exactly yeah that's beautiful I can't - art studio now and that's where I keep all of my terms of treasures and it's also where I get creative with my mother locking finds I'll show you a few things that I'm playing around with at the moment after having not much time recently to make very much I'm now back on to the GlassFish so making a few of those this is a recent one I'm gonna make some more fish out of this pearl what I'm also playing around with driftwood and other bits and pieces that I've picked up along the riverbanks there so some metal bits just here which I'm having a bit of fun with working on a bit of a self-portrait I don't know how that's gonna turn out but it's a lot of fun playing with it anyway it's fun being in here because it's basically like being surrounded by all these things which I find so very inspiring just the metal bits as I've collected so I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time in here over the next few weeks and making some bits and pieces but it's not only Simon and I that are inspired to get creative with our terms fines and with a muddler confiance recently I have seen it receives a really beautiful artwork by some talented people who are also inspired by the river some of them paint their fines some of them make creations out of their metal detecting fines some people paint reviews and some people paint plates with some of the wildlife that it surrounds the river so I'm going to share some of that with you now and if you like what you see do you go and have a further look at some of their websites which I'll put in the description under this video and if there's something that gets you creative and please do put it down in the comments because I'd love to hear about it I have put Simon's glasses to good use and put some spring flowers in them and I hope you're also enjoying the onset of spring so thank you very much for watching I hope you enjoy this little display of artwork which you're about to see and I will see you again soon thank you [Music] you [Music] you grow by the river there's a willow tree where we use to meet up my baby it's such a long time ago that I kissed you that's I don't know about you but I remember everything [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: nicola white mudlark - Tideline Art

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Length: 31min 34sec (1894 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 14 2019