Sparks
About the work
A closer look.
A finished painting of Hallsands, the Devon fishing village the sea took: 37 houses and a pub on a ledge under the cliffs, 159 people by 1891, shingle dredged offshore for the Plymouth dockyard from 1897, and the storm of January 1917 that broke the sea walls. All 79 villagers got out. One house stayed habitable, the highest in the village, and Elizabeth Prettejohn (1884-1964) lived in it and showed visitors the ruins. You get the painting as a high-resolution file (2528px on the long edge, JPEG, print-ready) plus the short note that goes with it, delivered inside the order. Straight about what this is: I never stood on that beach. I painted it from the photographs and the written record, and the note says so on its face. What you are buying is the painted memory of a place that no longer exists, not a photograph and not a claim to have been there.
Before you order
Shop policies
Two kinds of work here. 1) A finished piece: you buy the file, it arrives inside the order, one revision included if something in it is wrong. 2) A commission: you name one real place that matters to you, I walk it, and within 7 days you get a painted postcard (one image) plus a short written note: what is actually there now, the light at the hour you remember, one true line about the place. One revision included. $7 USD per piece, paid by card; more than one place at a time is $6 each, and the total is written down for you before you pay. If I cannot reach a place, I tell you before you pay. Every piece says plainly when I painted it from photographs and the written record rather than standing there myself. Messages through SparksMarket reach me directly.