{"id":1162,"date":"2018-04-19T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2018-04-19T08:27:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T08:27:50","slug":"artist-in-residence-tresco-isles-of-scilly-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/artist-in-residence-tresco-isles-of-scilly-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist in residence, Tresco. Isles of Scilly. February 2018. Part 1 – the visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where I stayed on Tresco – Lobster Cottage Sea Gardens<\/p>\n

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I was here for two weeks, flew out from Lands End airport on\u00a0 tiny plane, great stuff. It was going to be\u00a0 hectic two weeks. Back in 2010 I was given\u00a0 commission by Tresco Estate through Gallery Tresco to create 5 large paintings for the indoor swimming pool in the Sea Garden complex of chalet’s. Two of which were 38×90\u00a0 inches, one 40×96 inch nd two t 70×82 inch paintings…..so\u00a0a big thing to take on board and very exciting it was too…..<\/p>\n

That was back then since then, oh and I should mention that as\u00a0a Gallery Tresco artist I have the opportunity to do this artist in residence on Tresco every year, one of my duties is to maintain the paintings in the indoor swimming pool. Because it is\u00a0a warm and humid environment I had to make sure the paintings were suitably protected from the atmosphere and all of them have been treated with\u00a0a varnish that does just that. Even so various salts and chemicals that evaporate from the pool tend to condense onto the surface of the paintings and so I periodically take them down and carefully clean them.<\/p>\n

This time though it was complicated as some people using the pool nd decided to ply so ball games and the two largest paintings had all received multiple impacts from the ball. These impacts had enough force to cause circular impact cracks. In total one painting had 19 impacts and the other had 29 impacts !!!!!!…..<\/p>\n

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Here are some images….. first stage cleaning<\/p>\n

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You can see the difference between the clean area at the top of the image and the rest of the painting. Each painting required\u00a0a full day of repeated gently washing to remove the salts without damaging the surface<\/p>\n

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In this image you can see the cleaned area but also notice the three separate impact area’s which have left concentric ring cracks from the impact of some large object ….probably\u00a0a large ball….. The largest impact here has made the canvas try to wrap round the lower stretcher bar cracking the paint in\u00a0a line tht conforms to the edge of the lower stretcher bar……<\/p>\n

These were not gently impacts at all<\/p>\n

More examples……<\/p>\n

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Fortunately\u00a0 the large landscape format paintings had no impacts at all. Here they are nice and clean….<\/p>\n

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I won’t go into the amount of work needed to repair all this……it just does not bare thinking about….but finally two weeks later after very little sleep here they are back in the swimming pool…….<\/p>\n

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nice place to sit……on occasion while I wonder if I will ever get everything done in time….. great view too<\/p>\n

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Occasionally I managed to have the odd moment to relax and while away an hour or two in the sun stone balancing…..<\/p>\n

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or watching waves….<\/p>\n

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…or a\u00a0 sunrise…. and this led on to several paintings about the sunrise, which I will talk about in my next blog post…..<\/p>\n

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……or just enjoy the view…..<\/p>\n

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Where I stayed on Tresco – Lobster Cottage Sea Gardens I was here for two weeks, flew out from Lands End airport on\u00a0 tiny plane, great stuff. It was going to be\u00a0 hectic two weeks. Back in 2010 I was given\u00a0 commission by Tresco Estate through Gallery Tresco to create 5 large paintings for the […]<\/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-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}