Forgotten (I) (Botallack series)

One of three works made in oil, pigments, cold wax and rock powder on aluminium panels, painted in response to walks around the old mining sites between Cape Cornwall and Pendeen on the West Penwith Coast in Winter 2024. 

Botallack Mine in particular, with its chimney stacks perched on the cliffs and the ancient arsenic smelter, enables visitors to walk in the footsteps of the mine workers. Now part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, in its heydey the mine and its workings extended for half a mile under the sea. 1.5 million tonnes of mining waste were dumped in the sea.   

Framed, floating in white St Ives tray frame, framed size 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm.

This work is being shown at the Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition 171  in Bristol from 14 September 2024 until 5 January 2025, where it is available for purchase.