Elisabeth Frink Messums Wiltshire
You can hear the chip of the chisel, you can sense the slap of wet plaster on the maquette, to can almost visualise Elisabeth Frink working on her latest creation.
Messums Wiltshire : Elisabeth Frink Messums Wiltshire
Maybe it could be thought of as one of the silver linings of the current Covid-19 crises, that with few people venturing out, galleries such as Messums Wiltshire are not inundated with casual visitors, but those with a genuine interest in what they are viewing and thus prepared to put up with the inconveniences of masking and social distancing.
This gives viewing of such a display as Frink’s re-built studio such atmosphere and almost intimacy for the visitor.
The visitor obviously cannot touch anything, but courtesy roping enables a close inspection and a feeling of togetherness with her tools, worktops, benches and indeed some of her works that were discovered but subsequent owners of the house.
The studio was originally situated at Frink’s Woolland House, near Blandford Forum in Dorset. Elisabeth Frink lived here from 1976 (until her death in 1993) when she bought it with her 3rd husband the Hungarian Count Alexander Csaky.
It sold in 2017 for £4.25 million.
Elisabeth Frink Messums Wiltshire
Art-Tales is a magazine blog site following the journeys and reflections through the art world of artist, sketcher, art historian and critic Al Beckett.
Merely to amuse, inform and entertain, Art-Tales is aimed at people who simply wish to dip a toe into the art world, share an insight, smile at a joke and maybe even be informed a little.
Al regularly visits the major galleries in the UK and whenever possible, mainland Europe and the USA. He keeps up to date by subscribing to many periodicals, viewing documentaries and the news in general.
Al paints and sculpts himself and frequently sketches in-situ. He has written a book ‘The Primacy of Your Eye’ designed to give people some insights to enhance their experiences in galleries. Fully illustrated with 400 sketches and drawings of major art works and their artists, the book takes the reader on a journey through topics to perhaps consider enriching the viewing experience.
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