{"id":1139,"date":"2018-04-17T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2020-03-25T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:14:16","slug":"sandy-bay-to-ballybunion-to-ennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/sandy-bay-to-ballybunion-to-ennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Bay to Ballybunion to Ennis and back to Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were now coming to the end of this pa<\/span>rt of the tour. With one tent destroyed by storms, a<\/span> fa<\/span>iling ga<\/span>s stove a<\/span>nd relentless stormy weather……but<\/span> more tha<\/span>n tha<\/span>t, I wa<\/span>s beginning to think a<\/span>bout some large pa<\/span>intings I wanted to crea<\/span>te a<\/span>bout this tour, work a<\/span>nd gallery\/exhibition commitments for next yea<\/span>r were beginning to surface in my mind. I ha<\/span>d to think a<\/span>bout getting ba<\/span>ck to Cornwall. We ha<\/span>d in fa<\/span>ct no where to go ba<\/span>ck too ha<\/span>ving given up the tenancy on the fla<\/span>t in St Just. So we were to all intents a<\/span>nd purposes homeless……I knew tha<\/span>t we would need some time to find somewhere to spend the winter…..produce new pa<\/span>intings for ga<\/span>lleries a<\/span>nd prepa<\/span>re for next yea<\/span>r’s continuation of this world cycle tour artist in residence.<\/p>\n

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Ba<\/span>llybunion<\/p>\n

I a<\/span>lso ha<\/span>d in mind tha<\/span>t I would be doing the a<\/span>rtist in residence on Tresco. Isles of Scilly, through Ga<\/span>llery Tresco a<\/span>t some point between December 2017 a<\/span>nd Ma<\/span>rch 2018. This would a<\/span>lso be  pa<\/span>rt of the world cycle tour…….residencies within residencies….. bringing the tour to a<\/span>n end wa<\/span>s not a<\/span> sudden decision….It sort of grew over the next few da<\/span>y’s, a<\/span>s we cycled from Sa<\/span>ndy Ba<\/span>y to Ba<\/span>llybunion a<\/span>nd our la<\/span>st but one camp in Irela<\/span>nd in County Cla<\/span>re, where we met a<\/span> wonderful ca<\/span>t……<\/p>\n

But before tha<\/span>t encounter we ma<\/span>de a<\/span> sca<\/span>le model of the sola<\/span>r system on the bea<\/span>ch a<\/span>t Ba<\/span>llybunion…… for the sca<\/span>le we used the length of my foot to equa<\/span>l 10 million miles. So sta<\/span>rting a<\/span>t the sun we ha<\/span>d Mercury a<\/span>t 3.7 foot lengths (37 million miles from Sol……a<\/span>nd so on), but sa<\/span>dly we misjudged the tide a<\/span>nd could not complete it…..but here a<\/span>re  couple of ima<\/span>ges……<\/p>\n

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Here we ha<\/span>ve wha<\/span>t’s left of the inner sola<\/span>r system being slowly wa<\/span>shed a<\/span>wa<\/span>y by the sea<\/span> – Sol, Mercury, Venus, Ea<\/span>rth, Ma<\/span>rs a<\/span>nd the circula<\/span>r ring is the asteroid<\/span> belt……<\/p>\n

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Jovia<\/span>n system<\/p>\n

Our la<\/span>st but one ca<\/span>mpsite wa<\/span>s wonderful a<\/span>nd ha<\/span>ppened on the a<\/span>utumn Equinox – 22 September 2017, a<\/span>nd tha<\/span>t is where we met the ca<\/span>t….other ca<\/span>ts, severa<\/span>l very friendly dogs…. a<\/span> couple of donkeys. ma<\/span>ny chickens a<\/span>nd got to use a<\/span> telescope……<\/p>\n

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Such  friendly ca<\/span>t…..<\/p>\n

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primitive technology<\/p>\n

To celebra<\/span>te the a<\/span>utumn equinox the owners ha<\/span>d  sma<\/span>ll event in their celtic ma<\/span>ze which wa<\/span>s ma<\/span>de by a<\/span> loca<\/span>l a<\/span>rtist a<\/span>nd we were  invited to ta<\/span>ke pa<\/span>rt….it wa<\/span>s quite specia<\/span>l a<\/span>nd wa<\/span>s a<\/span> fitting end to the tour, a<\/span>n a<\/span>ccepta<\/span>nce of the time of yea<\/span>r, the cha<\/span>nge from Summer to Autumn….but we did sta<\/span>y up la<\/span>te to do some sta<\/span>r ga<\/span>zing<\/p>\n

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……a<\/span>nd then the fina<\/span>l two da<\/span>ys sa<\/span>w us cycle to Ennis, where we then took the coa<\/span>ch ba<\/span>ck to Dublin to sa<\/span>y farewell to friends, take the Ferry to Holyhea<\/span>d, train to Bristol, where we ha<\/span>d fish a<\/span>nd chips….. did  stea<\/span>lthy ca<\/span>mp, cycled to Priddy for the last camp this year a<\/span>nd on to the  nearest tra<\/span>in sta<\/span>tion a<\/span>nd ba<\/span>ck to Cornwa<\/span>ll…….<\/p>\n

To be continued……<\/p>\n

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We were now coming to the end of this part of the tour. With one tent destroyed by storms, a failing gas stove and relentless stormy weather……but more than that, I was beginning to think about some large paintings I wanted to create about this tour, work and gallery\/exhibition commitments for next year were beginning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}