Sea & Skyscapes

Fleeting moments of weather and light created with paint mixed with Angela’s signature material, the River Severn mud, and danced onto the canvas using her hands and fingers.

Watching the morning chase the night away

100x100cm

The clouds almost touched the beach

76x76cm

Nature smiled sweetly this day

100x100cm

The night lowered itself gently onto the beach

90x90cm

Where sky and earth have begun

100x100cm

two crosses · eight points · one centre (2008)

A series of paintings based on trips to the eight cardinal points of the UK coast over the course of a year. Each journey was timed to coincide with the Celtic and Christian festivals that punctuate the calendar and to reflect the related time of day/night.

N	December: Winter Solstice / Christmas	12 midnight
NE	February: Imbolc / Candlemas	3am
E	March: Spring Equinox / Easter	6am
SE	May: Beltain / May Day	9am
S	June: Summer Solstice / Mid-summer	12 noon
SW	August: Lugnasadh / Harvest	3pm
W	September: Autumn Equinox / Michaelmas	6pm
NW	November: Samhain / All Hallows	9pm

Mixed media using local sand and River Severn mud to mark a shift in focus from the outer manifestations of light and weather to the inner essence of time and place.