Small Painting - Beulah Chapel Port Talbot

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Really like these 'small' paintings, all very well done, and a sense of pride for your home town of port talbot, well done David.

Posted by andre mulard on Sat 30 Jan 13:52:38

Thanks Andre! I'm a Londoner by birth and upbringing, but have lived more than half my life in Port Talbot. Painting has made me look again at bits of the town which I think, like most people, I'd always sort of taken for granted.

Posted by David Clark on Sat 30 Jan 16:10:43

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30/01/2016

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An example of the local council in Port Talbot getting it right and getting it wrong. Beulah Chapel was originally in a small village of houses called Groes which was compared to a Cotswolds village. It was demolished to make way for the M4. This chapel, though, at least was rebuilt a little way away, which is something. It's often known as the Round Chapel, even though it isn't, being octagonal. The scan once again makes the painting look more yellow than it actually is.

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David Clark

I've always drawn, but I never took Art as a subject at school, and I've never had any lessons or tuition. I've always doodled in idle moments, and sketched for my own amusement, but I never had the guts to try painting before 2015. I joined the Afan Nedd artists' group that summer, finally plucking…

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