The man behind Wales’ sand art

AN ar tist who goes b y the name of Din spends up to two-and-a-h alf hours cr eating these one-off dr awings on beaches across Wales. Din – a nickn ame he was given beca use he ’s noisy – cr eates the unique pieces , r anging from a space invader to a smiley face , using j ust a stick and a piece of string. The 46-year-old h as always had a lo ve of the beach since he was j ust eight or nine and said he enjoyed bringing a bit of joyj to people using the beach.b Din said: “My son Davidv said I needed to get a hobbyh so this is wh at I do.d “It gets me out of the house,h keeps me healthy,h and br ings a smiles to people on the beach.b “I hadn’t done any for manym years but I ’ve takene it up again now.” Asked about how long hish cr eations took, he said: “I t depends on each design but it can take fr om one hour to around two-and-a-h alf hours, such as the Tardis drawing.” Sometimes Din, fr om Pyle, Br idgend, plans out his designs but for more simple cr eations he j ust decides on the day. Din said: “I like the fact th at they ar e only temporary pieces th at last around 12 hours and then they disappear .I like the appr eciation factor too.” A senior technician, Din said th at his fa vourite design of la te h ad been the space invader. He said: “I enjoyed the space in vader beca use people ar e unsur e of what it is and then h alfway through they start to recognise the shape.” Many of the designs appear on B arry I sland beach but Din often practises in sm aller beaches such as S ker in Porthcawl.