The Englands

The idea for 'The Englands' came looking out to sea from Cape Cornwall. ' Here I was , at the end of England, looking towards America, remembering that I had stood on the other side of the ocean, looking towards England.' The Englands....,' the words struck a chord, the places on the edge, the shared landscape, the shared history, the shared place names, connected by the Atlantic Ocean. I was excited by the prospect of interlinking my American and my Cornish work and painting about the two places at the same time, the wild east and the wild west!. Producing the work for 'The Englands' presented me with one of my greatest challenges as for the first time the words came before the work.'
 
New England   The Englands (Detail)   England
         
Two Bush Island, Maine   Padstow 3   The Englands
         
Cape Cod   Padstow 4   Pemaquid Point Light, Maine
         


 
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