Pilton Arts Group are inviting members on a 5 week drawing course based on St. Anne’s Chapel, Barnstaple. Details of this are below: Class Dates and location Monday, 19th, 26th September – at St. Anne’s Chapel 10th, 17th, 24th October – at Pilton Arts Studios 7pm to 9pm. Class Details Edward will be teaching members perspective, techniques ...
As I ran into the Chapel on a wet summer’s morning there were heavy clouds overhead that loomed over the town of Barnstaple. Inside the Chapel I familiarised myself with the room and got to work adding three new pages to the drawing, adding in the school desks, display boards the wooden beams supporting the roof. Large parts of the drawing was heavily ...
The course of the five months I have been looking into the structure and layout of the different rooms in the Chapel and have decided to now focus on just one location that will be added to each month. What I envisage the drawing to become is a history of left marks on the paper as the room changes and becomes renovated into a light and spacious area. I have ...
These are the three drawings I have made at St Anne’s Chapel three viewing positions. The Fire Place – Blister Ink on paper – 27th May 2011 Looking up through the Front Door – Yellow Ochre Ink on Paper – 27th May 2011 Right Downstairs Ceiling – Sepia Ink on Paper – 27th April 2011
Right Window overlooking classroom tables – Pen & Blister Ink on Paper – 27th April 2011 Past Pupils Initials on the stone stairway – Yellow Ochre Ink on Paper – 27th April 2011 Sofa & Cushions opposite leaning wooden display board – Sepia Ink on Paper – 27th April 2011 -Ed
This month I have been focusing in on a different area of the Chapel whilst staying in the same position of each room. The day went much more smoothly and I was able to enjoy strolls around Barnstaple between each sketch. These sketches are starting to have their own importance which will help in developing my etching next year. The Eastern facing clear glass ...
Below you can see the drawings I composed in February – The Corner in the Main Room – In the corner of the main room I noticed how the paint was pealing off the plaster and black water marks were running down from the ceiling. Small Window in Entrance Room – As you walk down the stairs from the main room you see an entrancing little window that ...
My artist in residence proposal for St. Anne’s Chapel is to compose a small drawing every month over the course of 12months in the three different rooms of the Chapel. It is intended that these drawings – small at first – will each be added to over the coming months and by the March 2012 will have a large, multi-layered drawing that displays its ...
Hello, I have been invited by the Barnstaple Town Council to be part of the redevelopment of St Anne’s Chapel which is located in the centre of Barnstaple, N.Devon. My main focus on this project will be to create successive drawings of the interior that show a progression of an old space into new. Over the coming months there will be blog updates showing ...