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Artist Spends Hours Arranging Natural Objects Into Stunning Mandalas, Leaves Them For You To Find
Nature is beautiful as it is, but James Brunt is constantly finding new ways to make the beauty of nature even more appealing. James creates unique artworks using natural objects he finds around his home in Yorkshire, England, and their intricacy will please both your eyes and your soul.
From rocks and twigs to leaves and even berries as his art mediums, Brunt arranges them into spirals, concentric circles, and other detailed patterns. James regularly photographs his works of art and besides viewing the images on social media, his fans are also welcome to join him as he works. Scroll down to review Brunt's earth artworks, and if your eyes are left wanting more, check out these satisfying arrangements and art installations of everyday objects by Emily Blincoe.
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Catlady Rita =-= 7 years ago
This Lilliputian Stonehenge was built by Lilliputian aliens :)
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Daria B 7 years ago
Satellite. Earth to Andromeda, do you copy? Earth to Andromeda, do you copy?
Linda Newhouse 7 years ago
In a thumbnail I saw of this, I thought there were people around it and some animals. Wow! Just Wow!
Tamara Laney 7 years ago
Love how he made the outer ring of stones look like people standing and looking up at the tower and then the next inner ring people kneeling/bowing to it.
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
I found this on his website: February 10, 2018/0 Comments/in artwork, James Brunt, James Brunt Artist, Land art, Leaves, Mandala, Natural, Natural Art /by James Brunt My working code of practice – Hi all, a few things about me and my working practice. I am very conscious of the environment around me and take into consideration many things when deciding to make a piece of work. This code that I work to now has developed over time as my understanding of my surroundings grows. It wasn’t always the case, but it is now. 1. I don’t take stones away from their habitat. 2. If working in a popular resort, that welcomes and relies on tourism, I have no issues of moving stones around on a beach, they move 2 twice a day with the tide anyway. Where possible I collect stones from gathered piles, so not partially buried stones if I can avoid it. 3. If I plan to work in a more sensitive site, I check. For example, last week I went to Spurn Point a nature reserve. I contacted them first to firstly s
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Lala 7 years ago
I wondered if anyone else noticed this. It is nice to be inspired by other great artists.
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Donut_Addiction 7 years ago
Im so stressed some one like my little brother or even the wind will ruin it
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Deborah Ruth 7 years ago
Amazing! How do you find all those matching stones? Wonderful work! Thank goodness for cameras!
Linda Matheny 7 years ago
I don't know how in the world you were able to stand those stones up without knocking the rest of them over. Amazing!
Meg Klampfer 7 years ago
I wonder if he knocked one over in the process like Dominos. It's Wow amazing!
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
Coolest natural mosaic ever! Cant even imagine how long it took to break up and arrange all those little twigs.
Cheryl A. Friend 7 years ago
This guy"s mind works so great, the way he sees and makes art is amazing.
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Theresa Smith 7 years ago
Lol! No doubt some squirrel will come along and think he won the jackpot!
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David Buchanan 7 years ago
The tree will absorb these sticks over the years, unless it gets vandalised, or heavy weather blows them out... making permanent art. A perfect spot for a spider to make it’s web.
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
Another life metaphor... the uniform & drab slowly creeping over and absorbing the colorful & unique.
Maggie Collins 7 years ago
I mean really, absolutely amazing. And you are right about the wind.
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Jeannie Carle 7 years ago
Every picture is better than the last!!!!!! Can't choose a favorite!
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me! Absolutely Brilliant how he used thicker sticks to make it really pop-out as 3D.
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
The combo of the precise stick-work & the water- blurry trees is stunning.
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William Wenzel 7 years ago
It won't last! Why all the work and creativity for something that will be gone soon?
The Cappy 7 years ago
It'll last forever in the medium for which it was intended. Consider the number of people who would have seen it in person. Consider the number of people who have seen it in this photo. For this second (and much larger group), it will live forever.
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Deborah Ruth 7 years ago
More quasi-Andy Goldsworthy -- and that's a compliment! (Goldsworthy is American, I'm pretty sure.)
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
Thank you very much for pointing that out. Similar, but at the same time very, very different. Both of them are producing extremely pleasing works with Nature as Prima Donna. Truly inspirational!
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Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
I hope he has painted the sphere with phosphorescent lacquer, that would be so neat at night.
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Deborah Ruth 7 years ago
Such patience required to find all those leaves of the same size. Wonderful.
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
It means that you and I are forever bound to that particular tree and that it is of no importance whatsoever where it is. The wiring of our brains makes the repetitive patterns seem beautiful especially since they are only seemingly repetitive - no two twigs are exactly the same, no two leaves are the same, no circle is perfect and there are myriads of shades of the natural colours. The antithesis of the circles and the straight trunk, the passing, fleeting life of the leaves and the longevity and perseverance of the tree, the man-made and the organic, rebirth and decay. .. Or then again, maybe it just comes down to visually pleasing results of OCD. ;-)
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
Can't even Imagine how much time this took! It's like a woodland version of the swirls in the sky of Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Deborah Ruth 7 years ago
Great observation about Van Gogh's Starry Night. I can see that, too.
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The Cappy 7 years ago
The people saying pizza are missing the obviously-intended three dimensionality.
Chess Wizard 7 years ago
Not at all. I see the three dimensionality, but I also see pizza. It's a three dimensional pizza!
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Deborah Ruth 7 years ago
Yes, yes, yes! I'd love to find this on a beach in Northern California. Or even better, in my back yard!
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Sharon Hyatt 7 years ago
Not necessarily; as the tree grows, the bark will grow around the sticks, much like it would a branch sticking out. Only risk would be a pathogen might infect the tree and cause problems with the bark...but that is unlikely.......
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Marilyn Holt 7 years ago
It might be a branch pushed into the grown, not sure if it's a growing tree.
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Ani Asnever 7 years ago
It's not possible to know for sure from just this, but it sounds like a mother during WWI lost one son, is writing another son who is due home from the front any day, and doesn't know how the war will finally end.
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Glynis Lailann 7 years ago
This is so touching especially knowing that these leaves will be blowing in the wind very soon after this photo was taken.
Sherrie Glendening 7 years ago
This sad letter, written on leaves, is a reminder of how transient life is. Just like the leaves finally blowing away and scattering, in a generation or two, this young man will just be a memory.
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Linda Newhouse 7 years ago
If I were on this path I would have to walk around that. No way would I want to disturb it.
Jeannie Carle 7 years ago
I SOOO hope anyone walking there looks down before it's too late and destroys it!
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Kristel 7 years ago
It is so good I can not see it is flat! I believe it is flat, but I can not see it. And that is so impressive!
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Tamara Laney 7 years ago
Again, I'm absolutely amazed at the time & artistry it took to put these wooden pieces together.
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Elsie Collins 7 years ago
This will confuse the hell out of the aliens who are making those crop circles!!
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Carolyn Stewart 7 years ago
Looks like a plush rug on the forest floor. I almost feel compelled and want to go sit on it, although i never could or would! Awesome!
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Jonno Wade 7 years ago
I feel the urge to get up and go for a hike and create some of these...
Kat Rucker 7 years ago
I know, I was thinking the same thing...but we are blanketed with snow here in Maine USA right now. However, in the Spring, this would be so much fun to try! We're right on the coast also, so trying some of the beach designs with driftwood, stones and shells would be so cool too!!
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Noah Reimer 5 years ago
i think that the picture is perfect and i feel that this took a while and it is amazing
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Katherine Worley 7 years ago
They're too small to be apples. Might be seeds or something?
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Gael Sammartino 7 years ago
This is the most ominous of them, to me. Where does that dark hole lead?
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Gael Sammartino 7 years ago
While this at first seems serene, there is a bit of a Blare Witch note to it, with the stabbing of all those leaves.
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Linda Newhouse 7 years ago
I wonder how big that tree will get. I see energy being drawn into it.
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Jonno Wade 7 years ago
Curtains pulled back! So the real title of this article should read "artists" plural.
Cinthilindi 7 years ago
Si se fijan en la foto número 18 verán que está hecho con mucha más precisión y cuidado. Deduzco que estos chicos han copiado el mandala imitando la acción del artista, lo cual me parece una muy buena influencia para ellos.
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Charles Goethals 7 years ago
me too, because they're really nice, but.. on the other hand it takes away from the luck of coming across one of these, if you would see one, like these, it wouldn't be as spectacular because i would have known they existed..
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John L 7 years ago
Every one of these is a true work of art, and I love them all. And thank heavens they have been recorded for all time, because some of the most beautiful things are fleeting and soon a thing of the past. happy0144-...cd6b60.gif 
Hans 7 years ago
...and yet the foundation of an equally beautiful future...
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Bev Allisone 7 years ago
Absolutely stunning! I especially love how you portray the 'order' within the natural scattering of nature. Don't quit doing these visionary compositions. Thank for sharing with the world.
Glynis Lailann 7 years ago
Love them all. They are all so calming and theraputically satisfying.
Michał Waloszczyk 7 years ago
Isn't that just copying the work of Andy Goldsworthy? He started doing land art like 20 year ago... FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7sZv4_0Fxg
ivan bolitekurac 7 years ago
Normal headline,nice pictures,nice artwork.Thumbs up for this one
John L 7 years ago
Every one of these is a true work of art, and I love them all. And thank heavens they have been recorded for all time, because some of the most beautiful things are fleeting and soon a thing of the past. happy0144-...cd6b60.gif
Hans 7 years ago
...and yet the foundation of an equally beautiful future...
Load More Replies... Bev Allisone 7 years ago
Absolutely stunning! I especially love how you portray the 'order' within the natural scattering of nature. Don't quit doing these visionary compositions. Thank for sharing with the world.
Glynis Lailann 7 years ago
Love them all. They are all so calming and theraputically satisfying.
Michał Waloszczyk 7 years ago
Isn't that just copying the work of Andy Goldsworthy? He started doing land art like 20 year ago... FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7sZv4_0Fxg
ivan bolitekurac 7 years ago
Normal headline,nice pictures,nice artwork.Thumbs up for this one
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