Inspired by Poldark - Sea glass mixed media textile art project 'Wheal Leisure' Botallack Cornwall

Inspired by a commission, in this video I share the process of creating a mixed media textile painting of 'Wheal Leisure', Ross Poldark's mine in the 2015 production of Poldark, from conception, to composition and completion!

The real mine engine house is at Botallack, Cornwall. It is actually called Wheal Owles and has a tragic past when an accident killed 19 men and a boy in 1893 when the sea rushed into the mine. Today it is a relic of an industrial era of tin and copper mining in Cornwall.

For the commission, I wanted to capture, the majesty and strength of the remaining building. And the quirky bit of this project was a request to include Ross and Demelza in the painting. So we needed to make sure that the scale of the people was correct.

I like to incorporated sea glass in my artwork. The pieces for this project were collected from Port Isaac beach.

For this project I used, acrylic paints, Bondaweb, fabric, sea glass, embroidery threads and beads.

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