| I love these subjects best. Cliffs and falling down buildings.  Trees in Landslip Quarry, Cheddar Gorge. C Lamb. oil. 23 Aug 2016. Last year I did a painting of this from the road verge but this time I am much higher up the quarry. I never go too high up as I get vertigo and it is easy to climb too high then find you can't get back down. |  Mcarthurs Warehouse, Bristol Docks. C Lamb. Oil. 27th Aug 2016. I was delighted to find this had not been turned into fancy flats but had everything I love most- falling down buildings, rusty metal, corrugated iron, street furniture, a bit of greenery and all wrapped up like a Christo. |
McArthurs warehouse in Bristol was the home of Artspace before they moved round the corner to the redeveloped Brooke Bond tea factory at Spike Island in 1998. When I first came to Bristol I used to go to etching there at Bristol Printmakers with Emma Stibbon and Anna Gillespie ( both now successful artists) and also attended Peter Reddick's woodcut class . While its current appearance is exactly what I love to paint, I am sad it has been let rot further for nearly 20 years. There are so few original dock buildings left. At least it has not been knocked down, unless this is a ploy to make it so derelict that it has to be demolished for safety.
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