Homework – 1 Due Friday 23 Nov Use a
number of your photos from your trips over the last half term and experiment
with PicMonkey, Pixlr or other suitable online or digital manipulation software
you have. Save a number of versions (minimum 4 test and one ‘final’) Print up
four images to an A4/A3 page with annotations/explanations and your best image
on a A4/A3.
Homework - 2 Due Wed 28 Nov Hand in your photo for Autumn TIFS
competition - could be one of your trip photos.
Homework – 3 Due Wednesday 5th Dec Complete an artist research on a Victorian watercolour artist of your choice
who painted the IOW. Look at the blog
for ideas. Make a response to your artist
by painting part
or all of
work.
Challenge /Extension Look at the work of a contemporary artist to use as
inspiration for your own seascape painting/ mixed media art work e.g. Jerry Uelsmann Fabienne
Rivory Kurt Jackson or Amanda Hislop.
VICTORIAN IOW PAINTERS
In artistic terms perhaps the most important venue on
the Isle of Wight from the 1840s was the village of Bonchurch, just to the east
of Ventnor. Here charming stone villas with ornate verandas were built within
sheltered gardens and rocky cliffs, overlooking the beautiful village pond and
the sea. The beach and coastline proved a particular attraction for artists, who
portrayed the activities of crab and lobster fishermen going about their work
along the shore. Peter De Wint OWS (1784- 1849) painted ‘Bringing in the Catch
at Ventnor’ in 1814. He made several drawings about this time that were, later,
included in W. B. Cooke’s ‘Picturesque Delineation of the South Coast of
England’ (Cooke, 182624).
A school of artists developed at Bonchurch, with
Seaside Cottage on the shore being rented annually by a succession of eminent
names including Edward William Cooke RA, Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Charles
Leeson Rowbotham NWS (1823-1875) and Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr RSA RWS
(1813-1890). There is a remarkable similarity in the technique adopted by
artists like Richardson, Rowbotham, George James Knox (1810-1897) and Isle of
Wight artist William Gray (fl.1835-1883). Their rich ‘Mediterranean’ palate
with the extensive use of heightening with white is typical, and it is almost
certain that the prolific Island topographical artist, Gray, was a pupil and
painting companion of Richardson and Rowbotham. On one occasion in 1861 the
latter two artists painted an identical scene of a coal boat being unloaded on
the beach at Bonchurch.
The important Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket
Foster RWS (1825-1899) and his family moved to Bonchurch, renting the seaside
villa, Winterborne, for a period of recuperation from tuberculosis. Whilst
living there, he produced at least ten fine watercolours of children on the
beach at Bonchurch.
’At Bonchurch’ by Edward
William Cooke RA (c.1850). Cooke
produced numerous ‘geological’ pictures
such as this on the Isle of Wight coast
between Ventnor and Shanklin. A follower
of the Pre-Raphaelite School, Cooke
painted extremely accurately and his work
was greatly admired by the Victorian art
critic, John Ruskin.
