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Dirty Valley
‘Dirty Valley’ oil on canvas, 41x31cm, light grey frame
 
This artwork is inspired by the arsenic works in the Devon Great Consols mine near Tavistock, in the upper Tamar valley. In an unusual twist, this once poisonous and industrious landscape is now an area for mountain biking and walking.
 
 The landscape blends into a colour and shape, as the recent history blends into the strange, new incarnation of the mine. I wanted an ethereal feel to this painting; perhaps as if one is viewing the landscape through the mists that coagulate in the upper Tamar valley, or maybe through the haze of time.
 
It is a fascinating and surreal landscape to explore: steep slopes strewn with industrial archelogy from the intensive mining activity that occurred here.  In 1844, a 3-mile-long copper lode was discovered which made Devon Great Consols was the largest copper supplier in Europe. Later in the nineteenth century the mine produced vast quantities of arsenic – I’ve been told there was once enough stored there to poison everyone on earth.
Regretfully, I have lost my sketches and photos of this site – but it is close enough that I think a return visit can happen. 

Dirty Valley

£180.00Price
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    Barrack Block
    Maker Heights
    Rame peninsula
    Cornwall 
    PL10 1LA 

     

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