Painted for client
calendar of Five Castles Press, Ipswich,
this ancient
Suffolk
castle stands on a mound amidst some of the bleakest and most beautiful
scenery on the east coast of England. From its battlements one can see
the
distant coastline, long receded from Orford Quay, and the mysterious
Havergate
Island's 'early warning' defence structures and masts (this area is now
a bird reserve). I wanted to catch the misty, early morning rays of
sunrise
catching the faces of the castle with a certain amount of artistic
licence
in the trees behind. Still, one can dream. The image was later used in TLC Monthly listings magazine.
Another
archaic Suffolk building which has seen better
days, by the
look of this pen and ink drawing coloured with watercoloured
dyes. The death of a church is somehow moving, even
to
those who have no faith. I witnessed the demolition of this
place
of worship near the seafront in Lowestoft in the late seventies. The
ruined curved arches of the doorway spew forth a flood of dust, rubble
and masonry into what was once a churchyard. I saw it as a building in
its death throes. No doubt the developers saw it as a bloody nuisance.
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