{"id":19699,"date":"2016-09-06T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19699"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:11:29","slug":"louise-collis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/09\/06\/louise-collis\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art part 27: Louise Collis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landslides in Art part 27: Louise Collis<\/h5>\n

This is part 27 of my occasional Landslides in Art series<\/a> – see the links at the bottom of the page for some earlier editions, including Part 26, Robyn Collier<\/a>.\u00a0 This time I am featuring a painting by the artist Louise Collis<\/a> entitled Blaina Landslide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Louise is a landscape artist based in South Wales.\u00a0 She describes herself as follows:<\/p>\n

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Based in the South Wales with the beautiful mountains, industrial villages and a fantastic coastline on my door step, I am inspired by the changing colours, light and history of the landscape.\u00a0 I take my painting kit everywhere and can often be found sat on a hillside or cliff painting on a sunny day or inside my car\/studio on a rainy day. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Louise has a studio in Abergavenny in South Wales.\u00a0 Starting in July 2014, Louise focused on a project to create one Plein Air landscape painting per day<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In May 2014 I had the idea to create one landscape painting, outdoors, everyday for a year. It was a very exciting idea that would see me painting the changing seasons and my travels around the country. \u00a0 To help get the project started and cement my commitment to it I posted it on Kickstarter – a crowd funding website, and invited people to support the project by buying the paintings in advance. By June 2014 I was thrilled to get the support of over 50 backers and was able to order all the painting boards required and schedule some painting trips. I started painting in July 2014 and have been sending my backers monthly updates.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It has been an incredibly enjoyable and informative process. The changes in my painting style has been documented as well as the seasons, and I’ve now produced a large body of work that I’m very proud of and are proving to be great inspiration for other work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Paintings are all 8” x 6” Oil on Board<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The painting I am featuring is number 232<\/a>, painted in the Spring of 2015:<\/p>\n

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Painting number 232 in the 365 Project<\/a> by Louise Collis: “Blaina Landslide”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Louise describes the painting as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Painted on 4 March looking at the old landslip above house at Blaina in the Bleanau Gwent Valley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blaina is a small town situated in the Valleys of South Wales with a population of about 5,000 people.\u00a0 This an area that was once dominated by coal mining, but the Beynon’s Colliery<\/a> was closed in April 1975 after an underground fire.\u00a0 The valleys have a long history of landslides, exacerbated by the mining.\u00a0 The Google Earth image below shows the slopes above Blaina, with a number of landslides:<\/p>\n

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Google Earth imagery of landslides in the Balina area<\/p><\/div>\n

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Note the obvious rockslide in the foreground and the much larger, probably older landslide that has taken a bite our of the ridge for example. On the opposite valley wall there is another series of large landslides, and it is these that Louise Collis has painted:<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of landslides in the Blaina area of South Wales<\/p><\/div>\n

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These landslides required considerable work in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Blaina has a long history of landslides – a report by R.H. Pullen of Gwent County Council identified four significant landslides in the area for example. The painting by Louise Collis captures the drama of the landslides, with the presence of the houses providing a distinctly human context.\u00a0 The painting is still on sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous editions of the Landslides in art series:<\/h5>\n

Landslides in Art Part 26: Robyn Collier<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 25: Richard Humphrey<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 24 \u2013 Mary Buckland<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 23: Marzia Colonna<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 22: Aberfan (7 pianos, percussion, voice and tools of rescue)<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 21: Harlequin<\/a><\/p>\n

Landslides in Art Part 20: A cannonade on the Matterhorn 1862<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Landslides in Art part 27: Louise Collis This is part 27 of my occasional Landslides in Art series – see the links at the bottom of the page for some earlier editions, including Part 26, Robyn Collier.\u00a0 This time I am featuring a painting by the artist Louise Collis entitled Blaina Landslide. Louise is a landscape artist based in South Wales.\u00a0 She describes herself as follows: Based in the South …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,144,469,1162,575],"class_list":["post-19699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-europe","tag-featured","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}