Three Cliffs Bay - Nicholas Cheeseman

29.7x21cm, 2020, Inkjet print, pencil, pen, paint marker

The different sections of this work are bound together by the obsolete water tower that has been left to ruin. The pencil drawing in the top third of the image is a landscape view of Three Cliffs Bay with the oxbow river visible in the valley. At the foot of the tower I have drawn the silhouette of Pennard Castle that is adjacent to the water tower on the sand dunes overlooking the bay. The geometric shapes are repeated patterns and extended lines from the metal structure of the tower. The age of the tower and the castle, which is seven hundred years old, are almost irrelevant in comparison to the natural cycles that created the landscape on which they stand. Despite this they remind me of humanities impact on this environment, and natures intolerance to it.