Botallack Mine, Cornwall:
£35.00
Small Giclee Print – Approx Size 210 mm x 148.5 mm
The original oil painting is in a Private Collection, but giclee prints are available.
After many years of searching for a suitable disused Cornish mine for me to paint, I eventually settled on this dramatic ruin, perched on the rocky coast.
Botallack Mine is situated in the St Just Mining District, one of the most ancient hard-rock tin and copper mining areas in Cornwall. Here the majority of principal sites lie within a well-defined spectacular coastal belt 3.5 miles long by approximately 1.25 miles wide. Copper and tin has been won here for countless generations, with records going back to 1721, and miners have even sunk shafts and driven levels out beneath the ocean bed. These are the world famous submarine mines.
Walking around Botallack is now a peaceful experience, especially in spring when wildflowers adorn the cliffs. Many fathoms underground, and in tunnels out under the sea, miners – often father and son – toiled to break the ore. Hand-drilling shot holes for blasting with gunpowder, and working the narrow ‘stopes’ with hammer and ‘picker’, the work was hard and dangerous. But mining was the life-blood of the St Just area and hundreds of families depended on this ancient industry
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