I will soon be finished the Tickle Cove Broad painting. I am taking a week or two off from the Howley series and working on some smaller pieces for another exhibition I will be having at the Ocean View Gallery in Carbonear next August. The pieces for this show will be small works, working title is "Shoreline Stories". Carbonear is my home town so I'm excited to be showing my work out there.
The next piece in the Howley project [All Roads Lead to Here] is from the survey of Little Dantzic Cove on the Burin Peninsula in 1870. I made two visits out to this cove and I am anxious to start painting it.
When Howley was there on August 10, 1870 he walked down the coast from Great Dantzic Cove. He wrote about the quartzite and slate along the shore until he got to the point before Little Dantzic. It is at this place that he writes "Here, all is confusion" and goes on to describe contortions, compressions, twists, and displacements.
He illustrates this in his journal.
His field books are amazing! He managed to label rock types in so tiny a space. This journal is not very big, 4 x 6 inches and still legible after almost 140 years!
This excerpt will be accompanying the painting, it's what I plan to do for all the paintings. The words in the field books were what inspired me to find the places he described. This one was especially sweet because of the illustration!
Below is a preliminary sketch of the spot.
There are so many colours and textures in this structure, I'm sure it will have its challenges, as can be seen in the images below.
It will be the longest painting I've done yet...I am excited about starting it!
Interesting.. he was a great observer..
ReplyDeletelooks like some nice folds there
keep going, can't wait to see your interpretation
Derek Wilton