The Art of Stones (12 Photos by Jon Foreman)

Have you ever seen a beach look this good? Jon Foreman turns stones into hypnotic patterns that look like they belong in a dream. In 2025, he traveled from Wales to Taiwan to create these 12 masterpieces. Some pieces were made with Layla Parkin, and they are all absolutely stunning. Check out these 12 photos of his land art!

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Land artist Jon Foreman sitting beside a large stone spiral on a beach in Druidston, Wales, with black stones arranged in concentric rings that decrease in size toward the center.

🌀 1. Revolve — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales

This dark stone spiral pulls your eyes right into the center. It looks like a giant fingerprint left by nature on the sand.

Jon Foreman: Although I love it when a big wave takes the piece in one, Sometimes the gently lapping waves can provide an extra element to a piece. In this case the small crease lines in the sand – a reaction to the stones being there provide an extra essence of motion to a work that already suggests that. I respond to nature, nature responds to me. A conversation, if you like.


Circular stone artwork on a beach featuring a sunburst design with white pebbles in the center and darker stones radiating outward, surrounded by rocky shoreline and waves in the background.

☀️ 2. Circuitus Meridiem — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales

This one looks like a glowing stone sun. The white pebbles in the middle pop against the darker stones on the outside. It is the perfect way to welcome the morning.


Color gradient pebble circle on sand, shifting from white and gold in the center to orange, red, purple, and blue toward the edges in symmetrical layers.

🌈 3. Sol Colorum — Freshwater West

This is a rainbow made of rocks. The colors shift from orange to blue so perfectly you might think the beach was painted. Nature has the best color palette.


Stone sculpture on a Welsh beach showing a circular form visually halved with mirrored sides of blue-grey and tan pebbles under a bright sky.

🌗 4. Halved — Lindsway Bay, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire

This piece looks like a giant pebble split in half. It shows how different colors and textures can fit together in perfect balance. It is like a stone yin and yang.


Leaf-shaped land art made of reddish stones in gradually changing sizes, arranged in rows on a sandy beach near scattered pebbles and seaweed.

🍂 5. Lapis Folium — Gann Estuary (Dale), Wales

A 3D leaf made entirely of red stones. It looks like nature forgot a giant autumn leaf on the sand. The detail is simply amazing.


Expansive stone arrangement on a Welsh beach with concentric rings transitioning from white in the center to black stones along the outer edges.

🔘 6. Augere — Druidston, Hamlet in Wales

A huge circle with a bright center. The layers of stones make it look like the art is glowing from the inside. It is hard to believe these are just normal rocks.


Spiral stone artwork at the water’s edge, made of alternating dark and white stones forming twisting arms with ocean waves and a glowing horizon behind.

🌊 7. Ripple — Qixingtan Beach, Hualien, Taiwan

This looks like a black and white galaxy on the shore. It is as if a drop of water hit the beach and turned into stone. It was created for a festival in Taiwan.

Jon Foreman: As a Ripple, through water undulates and expands, as does the flow of this artwork. Symbolic of the expansion of the festival and the waves it makes, bringing people together from across seas and transcending languages. This piece is also an evolution and expansion on the piece created by myself and Terry in Hualien last year. Spent a few days on this, very slow work, but luckily the sun was behind the clouds this time, so it wasn’t as hot as last time!, we built this piece to last for the festival time so between every large stone there are three small pebbles that act as a tripod for the next stone, even the smallest stacks feature this technique. it was very slow work by comparison to my more floor based work. The overall form is influenced by the ripple effect caused by a droplet in water. I have a fascination with creating flow with such solid objects as stones. I think there’s more to be experimented with for this form.


Dozens of tiny balanced stone stacks forming a symmetrical radial pattern on a pebble-covered beach, with an artist kneeling beside it.

💥 8. Colos Chaos — Freshwater West

Hundreds of tiny stone towers standing together in a starburst. This collaboration with Layla Parkin looks like a stone explosion that stopped in time. Do not sneeze near this one!

Jon Foreman: It was quite a rush towards the end as the sun was going down, I would have liked to have adjusted some bits even after looking at pictures now, even so I’m still happy with it!


Beach sculpture in the shape of a crescent moon using shell rings carefully placed on the sand near reddish rock formations during golden hour.

🌙 9. Shell Moon — Sandy Haven Beach, UK

A crescent moon made from hundreds of shells. It is delicate, beautiful, and fits perfectly with the golden sunset light. Truly magical stuff.


Stone mandala in a sunburst layout with colorful rays extending outward from a hollow center, arranged on smooth sand under soft sunset light.

🌟 10. Radiance — Freshwater West

A sunburst pattern with a hollow middle. The sharp stone rays look like they are reaching out for the ocean. It is simple but very powerful.


Massive spiral sand artwork by Jon Foreman at Lindsway Bay, featuring root-like textures radiating outward in a fossil pattern. A single person walks near the top edge of the design, with tall cliffs, smooth sand, and coastal landscape in the background.

🐚 11. Fossil — Lindsway Bay, Pembrokeshire, UK

This is a massive drawing in the sand. It looks like a giant prehistoric creature left a mark behind. It is huge compared to the person walking nearby!


Jon Foreman crouching beside his beach artwork Fluidform at Pensarn, Wales—featuring rows of white stones increasing and decreasing in size to create a fluid, radial shape that seems to flow outward across the wet sand.

〰️ 12. Fluidform — Pensarn, Wales

Long rows of white stones that look like frozen waves. The way they ripple across the sand is very calming. It is the perfect way to end this collection.


More: 18 Stunning Land Artworks by Jon Foreman!


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