Bread of Heaven
The hardship, the labour, the physical effort by so many men to extract this product from the mines in the prosperous times of the turn of the century, made Cardiff Bay a rich dockland.
Coal was railed from the valleys to Cardiff Bay and send around the world as the owner of the docklands, the Third Marquis of Bute, became the richest man in the world at that time.
Life of the miners were shortened due to the dangers they faced and the diseases they contracted. Their hands tell their own story.
The coal became engrained in their skin in each and every cut and groove, becoming the very part of their soul.
The intense labour, day in day out, to put food on the table for their family caused the very substance that they worked to be known as the “bread of heaven”.
Ian MacKenzie
Ian Mackenzie is an artist based in South Wales. He works in rich detailed oils on canvas. He has a unique eye for colour and precision and as such many of his paintings represent a photorealism style.
Ians influence to paint comes from the study of the subject, the emotion involved and the interaction with the surrounding environment.
Many of his commissioned pieces have enthused not only the recipient, but also the painter himself by the overwhelming emotion of their positive reaction.
Ian says "this reaction drives me to achieve more. In the first instance art allows me the escape we all desire. But it is the journey of creating a piece of art for someone else that intrigues me giving consideration to the response of the recipient come the final brush stroke"
His work is influenced by the contemporary paintings of Mitch Griffiths, closely followed by Mathieu Bassez and Istvan Sandorfi. He is also an admirer of the master of light and dark, Caravaggio.
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