Wednesday, 26 July 2023

 Back to Watercolour for a while....


Here we go, then: this is a version of - be aware, now: version of - the old coal store at Castlehaven on Niton Undercliff.  The building is being reclaimed by nature, and that was what I wanted to convey, not every architectural detail  because it's not very architecturally interesting (and if it was, why are the owners, whoever they are, allowing it to fall to bits?).  It's several hundred years old, and served as a store for coal to the local garrison back in the day.  It probably stored things it shouldn't have done, too, given Niton was a haven for smuggling back in the 18th/19th centuries.  

I've painted it from recent memory, since I'm getting to crippled to seek out these scenes: but - it's what I remember and think of that matters to me, not the pin-sharp accuracy of any given scene.

Could be worse!  I could paint abstracts!