One of the nice things about the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield is that you are free to make use of your camera in most of the galleries, so Katharine and I both took shots of a variety of exhibits.
This shot shows an oil on canvas painting by Druie Bowett, painted in 1962, and titled 'Industrial Landscape, Wakefield'. The scene is dominated by the power station cooling towers and electricity pylons.
Born Drucilla Glover in Ripon, North Yorkshire in 1924, Bowett attended the Queen Margaret's School, York before studying at the Harrogate School of Art under John Cooper, a pupil of Walter Sickert. She became a close friend of Hungarian artist Jean-Georges Simon during her time at Harrogate, and later worked alongside notable artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Terry Frost and Prunella Clough. She was an active member of the prestigious Midland Group - 'a regionally influential collective of Modernist painters based in Nottingham with links to the St Ives School and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham' - and through this formed an enduring friendship with its founding member, Evelyn Gibbs. She married John Bowett in 1943, whose death in 1994 inspired 'an extraordinary series of paintings' shown at the Pierrepoint Gallery, Nottinghamshire.
Alongside her artistic career, Bowett had many public responsibilities including acting as 'committee member, then chair, of the governing bodies of Chesterfield and Loughborough Colleges of Art and Design', and was later elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Thank you all for your comments and favs, which put this shot on the popular page.
For me this shot brings back memories of childhood, with what seemed to be a never ending stream of steam hauled coal trains ran to the power station, which towered over the railway tracks - if only I had taken lots of photos then!
Thank you all for your comments and favs, which put this shot on the popular page.
For me this shot brings back memories of childhood, with what seemed to be a never ending stream of steam hauled coal trains ran to the power station, which towered over the railway tracks - if only I had taken lots of photos then!
Ian