Poenari Fortress

Poenari Fortress_Kerry Webb
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Super sky, Kerry.

Great drama, great painting.

Splendid skies, hope it sells Kerry.

Oil? I do like a castle; have a yen to live in one but without stakes penetrating grisly corpses. I should imagine this one would have been impregnable, at least with the weaponry available at the time it was built.

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13/06/2023
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Oil on canvas board, 35cm x 25cm. The 13th Century Romanian fortress was one time residence to none other than the legendary Walachian ruler Vlad Țepeș (the Impaler) and sits high on the cliff overlooking the Arges River, in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.

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Kerry Webb

I take my inspiration mainly from rural and coastal landscapes, and the transformative effects that seasonal and meteorological change have on these. I have a particular fascination with human intervention on the landscape and the resulting tension between permanence and impermanence: ancient…

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