Project Tag: Cornwall
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The Island
Pendinas ‘the Island’ is a part of St Ives I really love. It is magical – a ‘sceptred isle set in a silver sea’ when seen at dawn from the Ayre campsite and a towering gloomy place when walking around it wishing ‘no wo/man is an island’ on a cloudy windy day. Its many faces…
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‘Fairies from the Dark’
The second set of texts were from a small cheap book of Cornish Folk Tales. From the book I selected stories that related to St Ives and places around so that I could better visualise them, but presenting a range of ‘truth’, ‘myth’ and imagination. The Sands at Lelant and Phillack – about the encroachment…
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‘Cornwall on a side saddle’
For my first text I selected Celia Feinnes 1685-1703 ‘Through England on a Side Saddle: To Lands End pp?? ‘. About the Text Celia Fiennes (7 June 1662 – 10 April 1741) was born in Wiltshire, the daughter of Nathaniel Fiennes, a politician who had been a a Parliamentarian colonel in the English Civil War and the second son of William Fiennes,…
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Illustration 1/Printmaking 1: St Ives
St Ives was a place I have worked on before for: Illustration 1: Assignment 5 ‘Seven Days’ drawings and sketehcs Printmaking 1: Monoprints and Linocut. The sea Landmarks Mining Hayle and Lelant 7 days photomontage