MEDIA COVERAGE OF

Artist:

Pat Bullen-Whatling

 

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South Wales Guardian

November 4, 2009

www.southwalesguardian.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 November 4, 2009 issue of The South Wales Guardian, was entitled (as you can see): “Cow’s about that for a sculpture?”

 

- and we apologise to readers of this site who suffer from a nervous disposition or an aversion to puns - because, like cows in a herd, there’s more coming . . . but, to be fair to the writer of the caption, it was aimed mainly at children . . . but it that fair?

 

However, we are grateful to Mark Davies for coming out to take the photographs - and, to be honest, the puns did make us smile.

 

The piece Pat and the children are working on, holding the raw-materials in their hands, is called ‘White Park Cow’. This is based on the famous herd of fine White Park Cattle that are a feature of Dinefwr Park and Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, SA19 6RT.

 

We hear that these cattle were actually painted (brown?) during the war to deter Nazi night time bombers from seeing them and being able to plot their position accurately. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

 

This ‘White Park Cow’ was part of the range of sculptures which Pat constructed. Actually, Pat constructed the strong frameworks and then let the children experiment by weaving in thinner withies and so ‘fleshing’ out the shapes.

 

To see more of these sculptures and some of the many children who attended actually working on  them please click here and click through the various pages describing its development.

 

 

As this particular sculpture is based on one of the park’s white cows it seems only fair to show you one. These cows are not ‘tame’ in that they are not milked each day and so are unused to handling. Having said that they are normally docile - but ‘handle with care’ or, better yet, ‘don’t handle’.