Copeland Art Collective (Creative Coast 2019)
I want to be still here,
to pretend, for a time, that I need never leave.
To watch the light shift, painting this place with magic,
to follow the tides in their endless dance
and watch the wind as it gently crafts the sky.
For is it really a lie?
My heart holds this place closer than any other
and while life has made me a visitor,
a traveller, who abides only for a time,
there are other lives buried deep in time and memory,
there must be for I know this place as home.
AlisonR
The Copeland Collective presented the Creative Coast Exhibition as part of the Creative Peninsula 2019. Each artist selected a place of special resonance on the Ards Peninsula and then
produced an art work inspired by their chosen site.
I chose Green Island in Bar Hall Bay giving the following reason for my choice: "as a poet and
ceramicist I am drawn to the otherworldliness and timelessness of this place. It offers space to be
silent and to explore my inner landscape, impressions and experiences. The silence inspires,
challenges and repairs. It feels like home."