GILL WATKISS, b. 1938 | A Winters Day Cape Cornwall
Oil on board
Size: 25.4 x 33.0 cm (10 x 13 ins)
Framed: 37.8 x 46.3 cm (14.9 x 18.2 ins)
Gill Watkiss moved to St Just in 1968 and found the people of this old mining town and the surrounding land and seascape an inspiration that became a turning point in her work. Cape Cornwall, England's only cape and in fact only the second cape on these islands along with Cape Wrath in Scotland, lies 6 miles from Land's End on the northwest coast of Cornwall. The Cape became a favourite haunt and subject for Watkiss in it's various, often tempestuous weather conditions faced stoically by the artist's human subjects.
Provenance: Tony Sanders Gallery, Penzance