CELIA BURBUSH

cumbrian mining paitnings

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Cumbrian Mining Paintings

As with the Window paintings, there is something unique about having a direct, on-the-spot 'conversation' with the subject matter. Everything happens in that moment, before the weather changes, before the heavens open, before the sun goes in. To work fast, to attempt to not just record but to also imagine being a part of the subject you are looking at - this is what is interesting me.

I spent months venturing up to the old mining areas scattered across  Cumbria, some of which date back to the Elizabethan period. Tucked away everywhere are old mining entrances, dams and gunpowder houses, alongside the more familiar stone walls, shepherd huts and sheep-pens. 

​These paintings were then followed by a more reflective project, The Story of We, which explored the creative and collaborative spirit of the mining restorers I spend time with.


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On Braithwaite common, oil on canvas 60cmx40cm
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Powder House, Gate Gill, Blencathra, (mined for lead and zinc), oil on board, 40cmx60cm
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Hodge Close Quarry (mined for slate), oil on canvas, 80cmx80xm
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Grainsgill Beck, Carrock Mines (mined for lead, copper, arsenic, tungsten), oil on canvas, 60cmx60cm

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  • Home
  • Artworks
    • 'Into the interior' textiles
    • Cumbrian Mining paintings
    • People
    • Journey Portraits, 2022
  • Community Art
    • Memoirs of Doris Riley 2024
    • Maryport in Painting, 2023
    • Co-research with Kirkgate communities, 2022
    • story of we 2022
    • Journey Portraits, 2022
    • Light trails 2021
    • In Open Spaces 2021
    • Make it Now
    • Lockdown portraits 2020
    • How a Painting Speaks, 2018
    • These Four Walls 2017
    • Talking Tales 2017
    • Home is where the heart is 2017
    • Dreaming of home 2016
    • Life of a House, 2017
    • Dialogue with E numbers, 2014
    • Hour of the Star
    • Film Archive
  • News
  • ABOUT
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Experience
    • Reviews