Avon Fault

This artwork presents a striking visual narrative of the Avon Fault's geological complexity through a contemporary abstract composition. It integrates photographic fragments of gneiss and granite rocks—two distinct but intimately connected formations—embedded within minimalist geometric shapes. The coarse-grained texture and mineral banding of the gneiss, alongside the crystalline pinkish hues of granite, are displayed against a muted green backdrop, evoking the natural landscape of southwestern England. The art captures the enduring tension and interplay between metamorphic and igneous processes, embodied in contrasting textures and colours arranged with deliberate asymmetry. The circular close-up image invites intimate examination of the rock’s crystalline structures, emphasising the immense geological history preserved in these stones shaped by the Variscan orogeny some 300 million years ago.