Artist: Pat Bullen-Whatling

15th - 26th August 2009 (inclusive)

Commissioned for an exhibition by the National Trust at -

Dinefwr Park and Castle, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, SA19 6RT.

Please telephone: 01558-823902 - or email:

Dinefwr@nationaltrust.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newton House, at the centre of Dinefwr Park, stands in approximately 850 acres of lush green Welsh pasture and park land with magnificent views around.

 

The artist Pat Bullen-Whatling has long been attracted to this park which is within a few minutes walking distance of her home. Much of her inspiration, especially for her ‘Painting - Macroscopic Landscapes’ section (hover your mouse over the ‘Artworks’ button, above), has come directly from the very ancient trees and stone that can be found in abundance there.

 

She has recently been commissioned by the National Trust to construct a ‘Celtic Circle’, a piece of outdoor sculpture, which is an evolution of her ‘pierced’ works that have, for so long, been a feature of her art. As well as her ‘Celtic Circle’ she is also holding a major solo show in the exhibition hall there and will also have material explaining the significance of her work hung inside the main house, both in one of the main display rooms and the nearest corner tower (first floor) as you look at the photograph above (top). As well as being available most days the exhibition is showing she will also attend on 20th August for a ‘Family Fun Day’ organised by the National Trust, hosting a Children’s Workshop - encouraging them to have a go at creating their own mini-circles.

 

Armed with her own small and portable circle of interwoven twigs Pat Bullen-Whatling has taken many hundreds of photographs, both to help her position the much larger circle that is to be constructed there and also for use in her digital work.

 

The full sized circle is intended to be as tall as an adult and will be situated just to the right front corner of the house (very approximately) where the two visitors are standing in the photograph above (top). It will direct the view (literally, the light) through from the beautiful folded valley behind the house all the way from Paxton’s Tower on the distant hills beyond and, the other way, will frame an area of the extremely ancient woodland that the park is justly famous for.

 

Please click on the picture below to see more of Pat’s ‘One Woman Exhibition’ -

 

A very few of the hundreds of digital images taken when researching the ‘Celtic Circle’ project.

Information from the Dinefwr Park (National Trust) web site -

 

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-dinefwrpark

 

12th-century Welsh castle, historic house and 18th-century landscape park, enclosing a medieval deer park

 

   * Home to more than 100 fallow deer and a small

       herd of White Park Cattle

   * Number of scenic walks, including a wooded

       boardwalk

   * Country house with some rooms dressed in 1912

       style, exhibition rooms, tea-room and NT shop

 

Please hover mouse over picture for larger image.