Wanted to express the warmth of the wintry colours, whilst feeling freezingly cold. Some history here as it is one of the finest examples of a Cistercian Abbey though obscured somewhat by being for some time on the edge of an urban and heavily industrialised part of Leeds. The de Lacys-b rutal Norman conquerors by a paradox of history endowed the land to the monks and this was one of the first northern English sites that Turner painted on a rainy day 200 years before me!
I love the sensation of old carved stone and the romance of such ruins that Shakespeare so well described;'Bare, ruin'd Choirs-where late the sweet birds sang. '
West Front-Kirkstall Abbey. Winter.
Art by Independent Artists, Paintings, Mixed media
Author: Nina Greenwood (Was David At The Time! )
42.2 x 28.4 cm /
16.6 x 11.2 in
Diameter 1.3 cm / 0.5 in
Weight 0.45 kg / 1 lbs
Themes: Religious, Spiritual / Origin: United Kingdom / Genre: Expressionnism / Characteristic: Framed / Authenticity / Provenance: Sold by the Artist / Mounting: On cardboard / Artistic trend: English Painting / Period: Contemporary /
Posted: january 16, 2012 / Modified: january 16, 2012
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