INTRODUCTION
From the 22nd – 30th April 2011, myself and six other artists were invited to Ireland to spend a week creating artwork for the new interior of the Churchtown house owned by William Magill. The brief set was to create a collection of work to be hung in the house using the surrounding environment as a source of context and inspiration. Through current research into Romanticism and the ‘Sublime,’ as well as the ‘Natural Sublime’ I decided to use the landscape as a source of material. Being influenced heavily by Caspar David Friedrich in his ‘epic’ depictions of landscapes and storms, and using my preferred medium of charcoal I created two drawings of the surrounding landscape, concentrating primarily on the skyline. At the end of the week the two drawings were bought and are now situated in Churchtown House.
