MEDIA COVERAGE OF

Artist:

Pat Bullen-Whatling

 

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Western Mail

August 29, 2009

www.walesonline.co.uk/

 

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Since finishing her Honours Degree in Fine Art at Trinity University College, Carmarthen in June 2009 the artist Pat Bullen-Whatling has begun to attract local media attention.

 

The  above article, in the August 29, 2009 issue of the Western Mail, is a result of a visitor to Dinefwr Park and Castle photographing her ‘Celtic Circle’ and sending it in to the paper as an example of one of the beautiful sights to see in Wales.

 

The gentleman who took this photograph has his own web site, which is well worth visiting - it can be found at: 400 Smiles A Day

 

Though this piece (called ‘Celtic Circle’ - Dinefwr Park and Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, SA19 6RT.) was originally only supposed to stand for the duration of Pat Bullen-Whatling’s One-Woman Exhibition there (15th - 26th August 2009 - twelve days) it has proved so popular that, at the time of writing (November 10, 2009), it is still standing and still attracting much comment and admiration.

 

As this sculpture is positioned only about fifty yards (or metres) from the main entrance to Newton House, the grand country-house in the grounds of Dinefwr Park, it is both easy and worthwhile to reach as it directs the panoramic view of Paxton’s Tower (a hilltop folly about 4 miles away (?)) through the deer park and into the viewer’s eye. While, standing on the other side, the circle acts as a sort of time-machine directing the viewer to look, not at the man-made views but into the ancient woodlands that would have covered these hills since the Bronze Age, and before.