{"id":7205,"date":"2013-11-05T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2013-11-04T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T16:37:47","slug":"geoff-townson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/11\/05\/geoff-townson\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in Art Part 19: Geoff Townson"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Part 19 of my occasional Landslides in Art series, this time featuring the Dorset artist Geoff Townson.\u00a0 Part 18 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Geoff Townson<\/a> is an artist based in that classic landslide area, the West Dorset.\u00a0 Given that he has both a degree and a PhD in geology, and he worked in the oil industry for almost 30 years, it is not surprising that much of his work (though not all by any means<\/a>) features the geological aspects of landscapes.\u00a0 And given that he lives in such close proximity to many active landslides, it is equally unsurprising that landslides feature heavily in his work.<\/p>\n

Geoff has a good website that shows his many works<\/a> – his paintings are well-priced and some are available as cards as well.\u00a0 If you browse his Dorset Landscapes<\/a> and Dorset Seascapes<\/a> sections you’ll see a variety of landslide-related pictures. I thought I’d feature three here, all of which are within the classic landslide group on the West Dorset coast<\/a>.\u00a0 First, this one is entitled “Evans Cliff Landslip<\/a> Charmouth – Overview”:<\/p>\n

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Evans Cliff Landslip Charmouth – Overview (copyright Geoff Townson)<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

Second is “Golden Cap <\/a>from the Beach”:<\/p>\n

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Golden Cap from the beach (image copyright of Geoff Townson)<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

And third is “Winter Walk – Black Ven”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Winter Walk – Black Ven (image copyright Geoff Townson)<\/p><\/div>\n

..<\/p>\n

In my view Geoff’s great skill is his ability to capture the drama of the landscape – at times these landslides can be truly forbidding in their appearance – and also a sense of the dynamic nature of the landslide systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geoff Townson is an artist who is also a trained geologist based in Dorset, England, so it is unsurprising that much of his work features landslides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[502,458,469,19,139,133],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","tag-art","tag-dorset","tag-featured","tag-landslides-in-art","tag-painting","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","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=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}