50 x 40cm
£550 

Painting of West Bute Dock

This painting of West Bute Dock is one of the seven that made up the "Hiraethau" series exhibited at the Senedd Building in Cardiff Bay and which then transferred to the West Wharf Gallery in Cardiff during the summer of 2014.

A similar subject to "My Dad’s Ship In Cardiff Docks?", one of the first I painted after going back to try to paint subjects I had painted as a child. Dad’s ship is represented by Furness Withy’s "SS Pacific Northwest".

Ships, a common theme in my paintings, represent homecoming as the family is once again complete. However, the completeness is transient, ships set sail again and the tug has come to the Bute West Dock to take the ship out into Cardiff bay.

CH Bailey is next to the Norwegian Church which is shown in it’s original position, The buildings in the foreground have been moved from elsewhere in the docks such as beside the Roath Basin and so are represented as smaller than they would be. The cranes, the church spire, the buildings and the ship’s derricks all point heavenwards; representing departed generations.

The 50x40cm paper size is a modern metric equivalent of the standard imperial "Crown" size of sugar paper we were issued with in school and upon which I must have painted dozens of versions of this subject.