Teign Spirit
Weather pool
13/08/09 15:47
This is so delightful: looking through the glass wall
I can see the rectangular lake. It’s enclosed on
three sides by buildings, open on the shorter edge
opposite to the hills on the horizon, like Bute park
in Cardiff. The feel of an Oxford or Cambridge
college quadrangle, or Dartington Hall: there’s an
air of learning, of being involved in a long term
creative thinking project, and of being connected to
the past with a line stretching out from me to the
future. It feels privileged, a marvellous
opportunity. Calm.
Small groups of people are walking in the water, others stroll along the banks, and some people are crossing from one side to the other. I have multiple viewpoints: I am able to look at the scene from my vantage point behind glass at ground level, but also see from above and to the side. Water in all its forms: milky steam ice snow rain.
Teignmouth mermaid, small
watercolour painting, Teignmouth Museum
collection. Reminiscent of Hokusai’s woodcut of
a young shell diver’s reverie 蛸と海女,
published in a 3-volume book of shunga
erotica in 1814.
Teignmouth was invaded by the French in 1690, and part of the town was burned to the ground. Sodium chloride, or common salt, was one of the main economies until Brunel’s railway opened up the town as a seaside resort from the 1840 onwards. Charles Babbage had a holiday home there.
Many years ago my large colour prints of 16mm film frames taken from Unknown Woman were shown in an exhibition of landscape photography in the Orangery in Bitton Park (which was built in 1842, during the railway boom). The other artists were James Ravilious, and Paul Warner, who also curated the exhibition.
Small groups of people are walking in the water, others stroll along the banks, and some people are crossing from one side to the other. I have multiple viewpoints: I am able to look at the scene from my vantage point behind glass at ground level, but also see from above and to the side. Water in all its forms: milky steam ice snow rain.
Teignmouth mermaid, small
watercolour painting, Teignmouth Museum
collection. Reminiscent of Hokusai’s woodcut of
a young shell diver’s reverie 蛸と海女,
published in a 3-volume book of shunga
erotica in 1814.
Teignmouth was invaded by the French in 1690, and part of the town was burned to the ground. Sodium chloride, or common salt, was one of the main economies until Brunel’s railway opened up the town as a seaside resort from the 1840 onwards. Charles Babbage had a holiday home there.
Many years ago my large colour prints of 16mm film frames taken from Unknown Woman were shown in an exhibition of landscape photography in the Orangery in Bitton Park (which was built in 1842, during the railway boom). The other artists were James Ravilious, and Paul Warner, who also curated the exhibition.
A seaside rendezvous: at the MUSEum
04/09/09 23:00
Teignmouth, Friday: the day of the first Muse concert on The Den. The
home-made signs and posters were the best: there
is a tabletop sale 10am to 1pm at the MUSEum on
Saturday morning 5 September. Moments: getting
my feet wet, dance steps of seagulls printed in
the sand under the pier, sitting on a flower bed
wall eating sweet greeny-pink Victoria plums in the sun, and
rescuing a giant-size Elephant Hawk Moth larva: we
tempted it off the pavement onto my Thomas Luny
postcard of Teignmouth, and transported it to
safety near the Quay Street carpark. Read
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