Body Rock Sand is the culmination of an idea generated in Ian Jacob's
mind over fifty years ago by the gift of a book of photographs by French
master Lucien Clergue, Née de la Vague (Born of the Waves). In its
pages, Ian discovered a lasting inspiration--the interplay of skin, sea,
and sand in its evocative black and white images captured his
imagination and never truly faded.
Returning to his native Pembrokeshire in 2010 provided Ian with an ideal
canvas with which to develop a new multimedia portfolio of work over the
course of six years and achieve his own creative vision. The final
photographs are moments in time which capture the ever-shifting nature
of the shore, its fleeting patterns and textures, exploring contrasts
between the solidity of rock and the suppleness of the female form, the
sensuous relationship between it and the sea, and, at their most
experimental, creating new forms through the synthesis of a model with
the surrounding landscape and natural features.
They are the results of a process of care and craft, patience and
perseverance, of battling tide, time, and conditions to achieve the
extraordinary.
