I have been making contacts towards a new work that is inspired by the writing of local Milnthorpe/Arnside novelist Constance Holme.
Calling Up Constance
Enter the sixth lady (Edith) Constance Holme (Punchard) “The sea was always there and though it came quietly perhaps and inoffensively there would be many a night when it would come like a beast of prey, ravening its path between narrow shores, devouring the watery desert.” Constance Holme “The Lonely Plough” The last woman to enter the landscape has written …
The Lady Trinity
Been troubled by these three this week. They are part of a commemorative window in the church at Beetham, Cumbria, (the village near the mill where I am resident artist). The church is now named St Michael’s and All Angels, but the church might have taken any one of these women’s names had history telling been different following the conqueror’s 11th …