Mellow Sun, Wheal Cotes
Acrylic and jesmonite on panel
30 x 46cm
2010
This ruin that once housed a powerful steam engine at Wheal Coates, St Agnes, is perched on a cliff edge high above where a vast mineral wealth once lay. Bright orange bricks were used for arched lintels as can be seen here in the tiny window silhouetted against the setting sun.
