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MEDIA COVERAGE OF
Artist:
Pat Bullen-
Page 6
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Carmarthen Journal
November 4, 2009
www.thisiscarmarthenshire.co.uk
Since finishing her Honours Degree in Fine Art at Trinity University College, Carmarthen
in June 2009 the artist Pat Bullen-
This picture shows Pat and four of the children attending that day working on the framework of one of her ‘Dragonflies’. These dragonflies have a wingspan of about four to four and a half feet (one and a half metres) and it became evident just how strong the willow was when children were, at different times, seen sitting astride its back and vigorously waggling its wings!
This dragonfly did, however, meet its match one night after the area had been securely locked. When Pat came the next morning to prepare for the day ahead the sculpture was uprooted and laying on the ground and the tail of her willow ‘Dragon’ had been thrashed and much of the bark had been rubbed off.
No human intruders were likely to have been able to enter and the final theory was that a stag had come in, which we had seen them do while Pat was working there, and rubbed its antlers against the sculptures.
Pat had chosen a dragonfly as one of her subjects due to the fact that during late summer very many can be seen daily hawking along the small nature ponds away from the big house.
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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.
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