Looking Towards the Menin Gate, Ieper
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Another urban sketch produced in Ieper, Belgium. This is looking towards the Menin Gate from the direction of the Cloth Hall. The Menin Gate is a memorial to thousands and thousands of men whose lives were lost in the battles around Ieper (Ypres) up to August 1917, whose bodies have not yet been identified. My own great grandfather's name was originally upon the monument, but his body was subsequently discovered and buried a few miles away at Voormezeele. As for the Menin Gate, every evening at 8pm members of the Ieper Fire brigade play the Last Post in a simple and very moving ceremony, which attracts hundreds of people every evening.
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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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