High and Low in Snowdonia

LANDSCAPE #artist #AnthonyGarratt has completed work on ‘High and Low’, an outdoor painting installation in #Snowdonia, North Wales. The installation evokes a narrative about the history, geography, and industrial heritage of North Wales. It features two giant canvases, both of which were painted by the artist in situ. 

The first canvas floats on a vessel on a lake next to an abandoned copper mine on the flanks of Snowdon. It is a double-sided canvas and reveals itself to the viewer according to the direction of the prevailing wind. A second canvas hangs beneath a mountain in a disused slate cavern at Llechwedd, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. It’s in an underground chamber where men and boys toiled for 12 hours a day, six days a week, in semi-darkness.

The Welsh slate industry – which hit its production peak in the late 19th century – changed the landscape of North Wales and shaped the nature of its communities for generations.

The installation has been brought to Snowdonia by Bun Matthews, a local businesswoman who is passionate about landscape painting. Bun is owner of www.menaiholidays.co.uk. She hopes the installation will encourage visitors to make a deeper connection with the region's dramatic landscape and the forces that have shaped it.

The installation will be in place until November 2016.

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Art on show in Devon

DEVON OPEN STUDIOS (September 5-20) is rare opportunity to meet artists in their studios in some of the most beautiful and unexplored parts of the county. Much of their work is for sale, and many demonstrate and give talks during the 16-day programme, sponsored by the West Country letting agency Helpful Holidays.

More than 200 artists working across the county – in painting and printmaking, ceramics and textiles, sculpture, jewellery, and photography – will welcome guests into their workspaces.

For the free guide and details of all the artists taking part, go to www.devonartistnetwork.co.uk/application/workfiles/resources/low%20res%20DAN%20Guide%202015%20final.pdf – or get one from libraries and tourist information centres in Devon.

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