by Geoffrey | Nov 5, 2024 | Cornish Mining, Cornwall, Documentary, Tin Mining, United Kingdom, West Penwith
I have commenced an online BA Hons Photography degree with Falmouth University. One of the early assignments was to photograph ‘Found Objects’, which I chose to interpret as existing environmental arrangements which caused me to experience...
by Geoffrey | Jul 22, 2024 | Cornwall, St Just in Penwith, West Penwith
I have recently considered the idea that the landscape around us is multi-factorial and multi-dimensional. A landscape may be viewed as a collection of layers of occupation where marks left by successive communities are similar in conceptual terms to those marks...
by Geoffrey | Sep 19, 2023 | Art, Cornwall, Penzance, Sculpture Gardens, UK, United Kingdom, West Penwith
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance
by Geoffrey | Sep 19, 2023 | Cornwall, Spirituality, UK, United Kingdom, West Penwith
What is a Celtic landscape? The great atlantic ocean buffets the granite cliffs of the West Penwith coastline. The high craggy moors cut through the low scudding clouds. The twisted knotty woods conceal groves where healing wells and clouties draw...
by Geoff | Jul 17, 2023 | Cloudscape, Cornwall, Documentary, Newlyn, Penzance, Promenade, UK, West Penwith
My 5 days in Cornwall has been spent under huge ever changing skies, where clouds roll across an aerial landscape without cessation. I walked from Penzance to Newlyn today along the promenade, and explored a little of Newlyn. The journey is an...
by Geoff | Jul 14, 2023 | Botallack, Cornish Mining, Cornwall, Geevor, Tin Mining, West Penwith
The Cornish tin mining industry maybe history now, but it’s landscape remains a resounding and echoing reminder of when Cornwall contributed immensely to the development of mining practice around the world. The pounding and smoking residue of beam...
