Artist and Teacher
Having decided I want to exhibit in London in October with the Drawn to the Valley Art Group I need to get my work together pronto! It’s a challenging schedule.
After my visit to Japan in April, I came back with my head buzzing with ideas. I started to formulate a few ideas but have been so busy I couldn’t get them down on paper. Finally things started to permeate and paintings have emerged.
What is my inspiration?
It can be anything but is most often linked to light and contrast.
I’m theme driven, I like to focus on an ideas and then develop it further, exploring every avenue.
It’s a mood more than a thing.
Continuing the theme I have added more colour. The dripping water based effect depicting the ore and minerals have become the base for the monies and the metals found under them.
The buildings at Carn Brae are so huge, such a massive collection in one place. It reminded me of a monastery or derelict priory. The architecture is so detailed, the brick work around windows is complex and very fine, mostly made out of Granite. They are still standing many decades after their closure. I really focussed on the architecture, the windows and the juxtaposing faces of each wall.
The Seams beneath, the treasure sought, merges with the blood of
men that worked a hard life in the dark and airless shafts.
Drakewalls, this powerhouse, the stability
the core that held the engine, that kept it
rigid and strong and in place.
Emerging from the moonlit mist Wheal Betsy
stands tall on the horizon full of importance.
What is a Wheal house?
We see these riuns, of industry long past and
pass by without really understanding what was their purpose?
Wheal Betsy – The Frendship Mine, sat alone
on the edge of Dartmoor, A beacon, a vision
so dramatic on the horizon.
The power of the Wheal house crumbling away, slowly dissapearing and merging with ivy and wild vegetation creeping over the granite, bricks and rocks.
This painting was inspired by a visit to Drakewalls shaft, this Wheal house is well hidden even though it has a tall chimney.