In January I mentioned on my website that I was intending walking the Mariners’ Way and in the past few months I started researching into this ancient track. I have collaborated with other groups of people to try and piece together and created a proposal for this project for which you can now read a brief summary. The History of the Walk Tradition has it ...
Below you can see the drawings I composed in February – The Corner in the Main Room – In the corner of the main room I noticed how the paint was pealing off the plaster and black water marks were running down from the ceiling. Small Window in Entrance Room – As you walk down the stairs from the main room you see an entrancing little window that ...
I have been invited by the coordinators of Beacon Arts Project to take part in the 4th Beacon Bimonthlies at Wellingore Reading Room & Chapel, Lincolnshire. This will be a great opportunity for you to hear my story and find out about the different walks I have taken from the great Grand Canyon in Arizona to the bogs of Dartmoor in Devon. It’ll be great ...
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My artist in residence proposal for St. Anne’s Chapel is to compose a small drawing every month over the course of 12months in the three different rooms of the Chapel. It is intended that these drawings – small at first – will each be added to over the coming months and by the March 2012 will have a large, multi-layered drawing that displays its ...
Preview night 5th March – 7pm You are invited to a group drawing exhibition at The Lloyd Gill Gallery in Western-Super-Mare. For this exhibition I will be displaying for the first time a number of my sketches I produced whilst travelling across America. This exhibition runs until 1th April 2011
Hello, I have been invited by the Barnstaple Town Council to be part of the redevelopment of St Anne’s Chapel which is located in the centre of Barnstaple, N.Devon. My main focus on this project will be to create successive drawings of the interior that show a progression of an old space into new. Over the coming months there will be blog updates showing ...
Hello, This year I intend on completing the old Seaman’s route called The Mariner’s Way Walk. This traditional walk runs from Bideford in North Devon to Dartmouth in South Devon and it is know as a trail that sailors used to cross when transferring from one ship onto another. The route has been estimated at approximately 70 miles and from Bideford it ...
Welcome to Edward Crumpton’s new website! It is 2011 and with a new website, new framing equipment and new layout of the studio I am ready to start the year again continuing on my effort develop my paintings a drawings. I have added a new page to the website called walks. This page displays all past routes I have taken and pin points any drawings that were ...
Dear readers, It has been almost a year since I moved into the hay loft and I would like to share with you a few pictures of what the studio now has to offer. With the framing equipment fully functional I can now quickly and easily create the perfect frame for each new drawing or painting I make. This passed year I have exhibited in a number of key gallery spaces ...