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Monday, 5 March 2018

Had to share this #Repost from wonderful @boultongallery ‘The King of Rome’. Illustrating a folk song about a man and his racing pigeon. #artofinstagram #boultongallery #blackandwhite #scraperboard #folksong #raclngpigeon


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Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! Carving by violet pinwills in Truro cathedral “The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox and a bear” “He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the gift of miracles, with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid. He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the Abbey of Lanpiran, with Piran as abbot. St Piran ‘rediscovered’ tin-smelting (tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans’ arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross, thus the image on the flag”


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Not quite a painting…but I realised that I would have to mostly make up the colour as the only images I have are black & white … But I do love working with ink . . . .


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These are the 4 hero’s of my little WW1 pigeon zine … Having got to know them I now want to paint them :)


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