I liked this image because of the tree; its height, its shape, and its proximity to the wonderful granite bridge, which wouldn't be complete without the rails passing beneath it and off into the distance - but I couldn't fit it all into one photograph from the platform. So I just took lots of photographs.
Thee painting itself is another knife painting in acrylic. I brightened and distorted (slightly) the colours of the granite bridge deliberately, but - because the painting was done under artificial light - I wasn't quite sure if it had worked. The photograph of the painting was taken in a snatched moment this afternoon; I think that the gamble paid off.
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40cm
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I like this, and not just because I'm a railwayman! Funnily enough, I bought Chris Leah's recent book on the Helston railway for my partner, for xmas, as she is from that area and remembers using the line as a child.
ReplyDeleteThat should be Chris Heaps, btw
ReplyDeleteI have told him that you have pictures of the railway, in case he is interested. Hope that's ok.
That's fine - the more the merrier :-)
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