Mow Cop Castle Staffordshire Acrylic Print
by Jean Walker
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Mow Cop Castle Staffordshire acrylic print by Jean Walker. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop, near Harriseahead in the county of Staffordshire, England. ... more
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Artist's Description
Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop, near Harriseahead in the county of Staffordshire, England.
Traces of a prehistoric camp have been found here, but in 1754, Randle Wilbraham of nearby Rode Hall built an elaborate summerhouse looking like a medieval fortress and round tower.
The Castle was given to the National Trust in 1937. The same year over ten thousand Methodists met on the hill to commemorate the first Primitive Methodist Camp Meeting there.
The area around the castle was nationally famous for the quarrying of high-quality millstones ('querns') for use in water mills. Excavations at Mow Cop have found querns dating back to the Iron Age.I used a palette kinfe for the foreground, except the sky which was painted with a brush.
Though visitors were originally allowed inside the folly the area surrounding it has been fenced off due to an instance of suicide off the cliff edge.
On the turn of the millennium in the year 2000 a large fire was lit beside the fo...
About Jean Walker
Hi my name is Jean; I am a self-taught artist who works from my studio at home, in oil paint on canvas, My main subjects being Landscapes and Seascapes. I have recently undertaken portraiture, of which I am thoroughly enjoying and a new and challenging area for myself. I also have an extremely keen interest in Photography and I often paint from my collection of pictures, they prove an invaluable source of reference on wet and windy days when it is impossible or impractical to paint al-fresco. In 2002 i decided to expand my vocabulary in art by enrolling into Lichfield & Tamworth College for a 2-year Art course to obtain my A-Level. In 2004 I was accepted into Wolverhampton University, graduating in 2007 with a B.A (hons) in Fine Art...
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Jean Walker
Thank you Nigel........!!!
Jean Walker
Tank you for such a wonderful compliment Belinda.....I really appreciate it.....Jean !!!
Belinda Low
Wow Wow Wow! Jean - I simply LOVE the textures in this. You are such a talent!
Jean Walker
Thank you Gothic Romance for featuring my work.........Jean !!!!!
Jean Walker
Bless you Barbara; I thank you for your lovely comment & v....!!!!!
Barbara McNeil
what a lovely painting....great colors and style v
JEAN WALKER
Thank you "Beauty of this World" for accepting my work into the group...most appreciated....Jean !!!!
Jean Walker
Wow, that is such a lovely compliment Lucy...Thank you !!!!
Lucy Deane
love your style of painting, it's very dream-like
Jean Walker
Mow-Cop is on the edge of Cheshire & Staffordshire Lyn....it is strange....thank you for liking my work and for your support.....................Jean
Lyn Randle
Lovely work. That's so strange, we have a ruin identical to this in Leicestershire at Bradgate Park on top of a hill! Called Old John :-)
First Star Art
I love this!! :^D jrr
Jean Walker replied:
Thank you again jrr, I am so pleased that u like it:)