DISCOVER your own fossil reptile bones, shark teeth, spines and giant fish teeth at a special exhibition event in Stroud on Sunday, September 18.

Artist Adam White will be smashing a collection of rocks crammed with fossils at his latest exhibition.

The fossils come from Aust Cliff, South Gloucestershire, where the SVA-based artist collected a large amount of the Triassic “bonebed” (dated at 201 to 208 million-years-old).

The rock has marine reptiles, plesiosaur vertebrae, ichthyosaur, shark and even lungfish teeth inside.

“If a lungfish tooth turns up I’d like to hang on to that for my own collection,” said Adam, “but visitors to the event will be able to keep any dinosaur, reptile and shark fossils that we find.

“The rocks contain numerous teeth of the biggest fish that ever lived – leedsichthys. They grew to a massive 16.5 metres or even larger.”

Entitled Unlikely Things Happen All The Time, Adam’s exhibition is currently showing in the former Millets shop, at 20 Stroud High Street.

Art meets archaeology and natural history in this unusual collection, which also features giant water colours, paintings made of ice and a print of a python skin.

Adam has also recently installed a fossilised ichthyosaur, which he found locally, in the window of the show.

“I hope people who don’t normally come to exhibitions will come to my show and see how I’ve turned the once living fossils into giant paintings.”

Unlikely Things Happen All The Time is open on Fridays and Saturdays until September 30.

Rock splitting will take place on Sunday, September 18, from 2pm to 5pm.

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