Love Life? Love Pewsey.

 Love Life? Love Pewsey.

 

I am a newcomer to Wiltshire. I discovered Pewsey Vale and things were never the same. 

To date I’ve had 38 attempts to capture its magic, shapes, contours and quirks in my drawings and paintings. These are the places and views are things that keep me and many other people coming back to Pewsey Vale. 

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Is Pewsey special?  Oh yes, it is an area, it is also an idea: landscape, industry, towns and active farming. A canal cuts through and embellishes. It is full of oddness and loveliness. I have a friend who lives in Honey Street. What a name to embellish any headed notepaper.

 

A favourite place? The Alton White Horse. 

This is the gateway to a magnificent backdrop of tracks fences, trees that bend with the wind but will not ‘bow their knee’.

 

What was my first surprise? Pewsey Hill and east to The Devils Grave. And looking down on the village one crisp April day. Since then I have become involved with Made in Pewsey Vale Gallery, a creative collective. I’m  interloper who has been made most welcome.

 

Beyond expectations? Oh yes. A few days ago I was lead up to Adam’s Grave by fellow painter Lucy Ball. Lucy moved into the areas two years back. We just wanted to get out into the landscape and draw. We did. 

“Lucy’s View” was a bit of a schlep but look West! So much to enjoy.