Disused Granite Quarry
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This was painted on Cape Ann, Massachusetts some years ago. I rarely paint in portrait format but the composition called for it. I was attracted by thetall concrete built structure sitting above the quarry. I thought that it would have looked more at home on the coast in Normandy as part of Rommel’s Atlantic Wall. I as told later that it was built during WW 2 specifically to be a lookout station for enemy submarines which used to lurk in this part of the North Atlantic to prey upon convoys assembling to sail to the U K.
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Denis Pickles
I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…
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