CELIA BURBUSH
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Title

In ore

Description

Celia is travelling into the Cumbrian landscape most days, usually 1000ft above sea level, canvas on her back, recording traces of old mines in remote parts of the fells.

This project was initially prompted by studying Turner's lifetime's inventory of 19000 sketches of the landscape, covering mountainous areas such as Scotland, The Lake District and the Alps. He spent many months, enduring adverse weather conditions and exposure. Or maybe 'enjoying', rather than 'enduring'..

His subject matter was 'Romantic', capturing the 'sublime' in the landscape - ideas of terror, magnificence, beauty, and awe. The paintings would include churches and other buildings that might be popular with his patrons.

In the footsteps of Turner, Celia is re-visiting this type of landscape, but searching out a different trace of man. Those to be found in mining remains. She is exploring the importance of this industrial past to Cumbrian, British, and European identity.

"The weather conditions (generally cold, windy and drizzly) encourage a certain speed of execution. I get into 'the zone', similar to carrying out a portrait. I have this conversation in my head with what I'm looking at. In the presence of the silent mountains and traces of ghosts, I get a feeling of awe...for the monumental forces that shaped the rock millions of years ago and the hours of endurance to carve/blast into it, and the laborious preparations associated with this." Celia Burbush  

Location

Remotes sites in Cumbria.
Completed works are for sale at The Makers Mill, Keswick until the end of October 2019.

Year

2019

Celia Burbush
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  • Home
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  • Blog
  • Artworks
    • Memory Shaped
    • Elementals
    • In ore
    • BBC1 series
    • Home is where the heart is
    • Dreaming of home
    • These Four Walls
    • Remembering Macabea
    • Amazing Art
    • Fairy Glen
    • Grillpan
    • Intuitive ink drawings
  • About Celia
    • Biography
    • Exhibitions
    • Experience