Hello, The opening of the new building at Exeter University is less than 10 days away and with the installation of the sculpture happening this week I am busy adding the final touches to the sculpture. Here are a few photos I thought I would share with you. Here I am along the Mariner’s Way Walk when a fellow walker decided to take some snaps of me carrying ...
Created by Edward Crumpton, an artist living and working in North Devon, this sculpture takes its inspiration from the almost mythical Mariners Way, a 73 mile long footpath running from Bideford to Dartmouth, via the wilds of Dartmoor. This arduous and sometimes treacherous footpath was used from the late 1600s by mariners wishing to change ships, crossing Devon ...
Hello, This month I am going to go along the footpath of the Mariners Way and take photographs of the rope sculpture being constructed. You can see how far I’ve got up to by clicking here Thanks, Ed
Created by Edward Crumpton, an artist living and working in North Devon, this sculpture takes its inspiration from the almost mythical Mariner’s Way, a 73 mile long footpath running from Bideford to Dartmouth, via the wilds of Dartmoor. This arduous, and sometimes treacherous footpath was used, from the late 1600s by mariners wishing to change ships, crossing ...
Hello, I have great news that I have now completed the knots for the Mariner’s Way Project. The total number of knots comes to 146,000 and of the 6,000meters of Tarred Marlin rope I used; the total length has been reduced to 1,300m. It took me the best part of 6 months to do (av.380hours) and after wearing through a dozen gloves I am happy to say that it is ...
This month I wanted to explore my own drawing within the drawing and how its relates to itself. There is a sense of time and transition within this drawing as you are lead between different spaces, each getting smaller and less defined. And this definition could relate to the way you process a drawing from start to finish, from a rough sketch into a final piece. ...
This month I have been concentrating on developing the roof so that more of the wooden arches join together. The door to the right of the drawing is behind me and so it has been challenging -with the perspective- to position the door correctly. There is only one month left in St. Anne’s Chapel before work starts inside it so next month I will have to finish ...
This month Edward has included the drawing itself inside the Chapel as an invitation for the viewer to observe where the artist is looking in the Chapel and then how he is depicting it. From adding the drawing to the drawing the continuous process of observation, interpretation and expression the artist is doing inside the Chapel has become more apparent as the ...
There was a clear bright light inside the Chapel as I entered it this morning. The sunlight was pouring in through the Eastern windows, whilst the outside of the Northern window was covered in scaffolding equipment. I took to work firstly adding 8 new sheets of paper to the left and right sides of drawing. This month I wanted to capture all the variety of light ...
This month I have been focusing on the construction of the roof and the way in which the arched wooden beams lie in front of (and supporting) the A-frame.So far I have drawn 17 of the beams and have connected them to one another. You can see below a close up of how I went about numbering and lining each one up so that it corresponded with the beam opposite. This ...