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Patina 31st Edition

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Feb 2025

On top of the deliberate and crafted acts within the material of this magnificent edifice, I’m struck by the hidden layers woven into its fabric - not just in the grandeur of alabaster tombs or chevroned arches, but in the silent details

🎨 Atelier: The Nag's Head, Shrewsbury. Signed, Limited Edition Print of 50no.

A chance to own a limited edition print of a watercolour of The Nag's Head in Shrewsbury

📍Loci: Hiraeth

The landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time—the valley bottoms out into flattened serenity, as the Berwyn hills rise like embattlements pitched against any sense of doubt as to the magic at play.

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 31 Jan 2025

As well as appealing to my pareidolia, this face - this worn and weathered fragment of the past - embodies the words of St. Jerome: ‘the face is the mirror of the mind and confesses the secrets of the heart.’

⟁ Member's Supplement: Kell Well

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 Jan 2025

Walking through it is a wonderfully absorbing experience, akin to wandering through Pompeii or Herculaneum.

🎨 Atelier: NOW SOLD: An Opportunity to Own My Original Artwork: The Face from The Prior's Door, Ely Cathedral.

Own a Piece of History: The Face from The Prior's Door, Ely Cathedral - ink and watercolour original approximately A4 size