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Accession Code: wu0017w Title: Kilve-Stream Vibrato I Date completed: 1973 Medium: Prints Material: Relief print Height (mm): 423 Width (mm): 528 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed lower right in pencil, Gerald Clements 1973 Location Name: Senate House Location Description: Wellbeing Support Services Location Floor: 0

The coast at Kilve Bay in west Somerset overlooking the Bristol Channel has a rich and complex range of geological features; an outcrop of Jurassic Blue Lias contains alternate layers of black shales and limestone, intricately patterned with joint lines and faults. At the shoreline the limestone forms jointed ‘pavements’ from which metre high domes protrude, formerly fluid escape structures formed during the initial creation and settling of the earth’s crust.
These structures and patterns were obviously a source of fascination for Gerald Clements and provided him with the subjects for the twelve prints in his Kilve Bay series.

Kilve-Steam Vibrato I suggests a stream running across the rock-strewn limestone shore into the sea.