Here is my watercolour painting of the inside of the chancel
at Canterbury Cathedral, so far.
This is a longish task as the view there is complicated, so
first my thanks to all of the people who work in the cathedral for letting me
paint there.
To do this I have been using my large A4 sketchbook opening
to a double page which gives me an A3 sheet.
Something that interests me about this view is that I can’t
really take a photo of it properly, I expect an expert photographer could.
For a reference photo which may help any aspiring art
critics I have cobbled together some mobile phone photos that I took of
different bits of the chancel.
So why this particular view? In the first instance I think
this the type of view a visitor to the cathedral is most likely to get on
turning up to a service there. For the most part services happen in the chancel
with the congregation sitting facing sideways. The second part relates to the
north chancel transept (bit on the left of picture with big round window),
which is unusual as the stonework isn’t symmetrical in the way that the south
transept is, which makes it more satisfying to me in some way I can’t quite
define.
There seem to be very few paintings of the inside of
Canterbury Cathedral on the internet, I don’t know if this is because there
aren’t many or because I can’t find them so if you know of any please let me
know.
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