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‘The Reef Beneath Our Feet’.

£275

ORIGINAL PAINTING ON RESTORED WOODEN PANEL. READY TO HANG

52cm x 63m framed

This painting captures the rugged beauty of the Peak District hills, with hints of fossils lying within the limestone beneath our feet, and abandoned quarried millstones, that remain strewn across the countryside.

Fresh colours reflect the area’s natural resources while the knots and grain of the reclaimed wooden surface add both energy and texture to the piece whilst also calling to ancient fossil forms and groove patterns on the millstones.

Framed and ready to hang, this piece invites the ancient geology of the Peak District into your space, blending raw beauty with a touch of wild elegance.

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Category: Love Letter From the Earth Age Exhibition

Description

Description

The Peak District’s limestone is rich in fossils because it was deposited during the Lower Carboniferous period, when the area was a shallow, warm sea. The limestone is predominantly white or grey, which is why the area is sometimes called the “White Peak”.

Fossils of corals, crinoids (sea lilies), and brachiopods can be found embedded in the rock, providing evidence of the region’s prehistoric tropical seas. particularly abundant in the Peak District Limestone and are sometimes called “Derbyshire Screws” because of their appearance.Millstone grit is also a feature of the Peak District, also formed during the Carboniferous period, around 320 million years ago, when rivers deposited layers of sand and grit in deltas and swamps. Millstone Grit has a grainy texture making it ideal for grinding corn in millstones, which is how it got its name. The same Millstone Grit, dark in colour, gives the northern regions of the Peak District the name ‘The Dark Peak’

Circular forms of both Crinoids and millstones feature in this painting, and are echoed by knots in the wood. Revealed wood grain also calls to the grinding groove patterns on the millstones and fossil skeletal structures.