Description
No visit to Wiltshire and Salisbury Plain is complete without a pilgrimage to the mother of all prehistoric circles, Stonehenge. The site is jointly managed by the National Trust and English Heritage, with paying guests transferred from their new modern visitor centre to the stones – literally – in busloads. Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, a previous visitor centre was situated closer to the stones, on the opposite site of the A303, a main road that runs close by, and the stones were accessed via a pedestrian underpass. There is now, however, no existing evidence of that, and I’m wondering if I imagined it (if anyone can vouch for that, I’d be very grateful).
Once the coach has deposited them to the site (a five-minute drive , if that), visitors are restricted to walking around the outside of the monument, which is cordoned-off by ropes. This restriction is lifted twice a year, however, at the Summer and Winter Solstices, when 15,000 drum-beating Druids and pagans alike gather to welcome the sunrise.
However one chooses to experience it, there is no denying Stonehenge remains an enigmatic mystery of epic, eon-spanning proportions, and is a subject that simply begs to be painted in watercolour.
A YouTube presentation featuring my painting process, can be seen here.
This painting is supplied unframed, and will be dispatched in protective packaging with rigid backing panel, ready to take to a framer.
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