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Copyright 1986: A three month 'dots'
of ink only pen and ink drawing working by naked eye only, of
course.
Measurements of original and print:
14.5 cms. x 7 cms..Price of Artist's signed, titled and mounted
print each: £37.50p. inclusive surprisingly.
Description of composition:
This
dramatic ruin of a Norman castle at Corfe on the Isle of Purbeck,
Dorset, England was initially built by William the Conqueror. As a
Royalist stronghold under Lady Bankes during the English Civil War
of the mid-seventeenth century, it held out for nearly two years against a Parliamentarian siege until only treachery, by one of the
garrison, allowed a Parliamentarian force, thought to be Royalist
reinforcements, to enter. After the surrender, by order of
Parliament, the castle was destroyed and left in ruins. To the Artist, there is something stark, even sinister, about the
castle's atmosphere today - hence the crows and rooks in the
drawing. The thatched cottages in the foreground help to to evoke a
timeless English setting. |
