Alan Powers, Lord Berners' Folly, 1985
Numbered & signed edition of 500; 297mm × 210mm
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An original 6 colour lithograph drawn on the plates by the artist
at the Curwen Studio and printed in an edition of 500 numbered
and signed copies on St Cuthbert's 225 gsm all rag paper by Adrian
Lack at the Senecio Press, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.
Alan Powers was born in London in 1955 and studied Art History
at Cambridge. He combines academic study with painting landscapes
and buildings in Italy and England, and has also painted murals
in the classical style. His work has been exhibited in Cambridge,
London and Cornwall. In 1986 he produced [The
Seaside Lithographs], a set of eight prints for The Spectator,
and in 1988 The Marches [please email
for details], a portfolio of lithographs for Merivale Editions.
He is a frequent contributor to Country Life.
Lord Berners' Folly, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, was built on top of
a hill already called Folly Hill, where the obscure late-Georgian
Poet Laureate Pye planted a clump of pine trees. Lord Berners, the
composer, novelist and wit, lived at Faringdon House, built by Pye
in 1790, and completed the prospect with an austere brick tower
designed by Lord Gerald Wellesley. This last example of the Georgian
tradition of folly towers was opened with a fireworks party on Guy
Fawkes day, 1935.
Other work by Alan Powers
Merivale Prints: Sissinghurst
Portfolio: Seaside Lithographs
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