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Photo of the Week
- Sue Barnes
We received this rather disturbing and rather beautiful picture
from Sue Barnes, a resident artist in the Chalk Gallery, who
took it in Southerham Quarry with her Kodak digital camera.
“I was sketching in the chalkpit, and was lucky enough
to be there at sunset when the light suddenly became magical,”
she says. The setting has inspired a rich vein of work for the
artist, who has produced a series of paintings on the theme,
entitled ‘Ghost Cars’, one of which we used on our
front cover a couple of weeks ago. We like the colours: the
pinky, peachy skin-colour of the cliffs which is reflected in
the puddle, the more bleached grey of the ground rubble, and
the blue and rust of the truck chassis that has been abandoned
there. There is a post-nuclear feel to the picture, as if man
has scarred the beauty of the natural environment, then left.
Crucially he has not managed to destroy its beauty, only mar
it. It also makes us wonder who dumped the lorry there, and
why.
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Beauty and the Beast: the inspiration
for Sue Barnes’ Ghost Cars
(see issue 13) |
