Love in Every Port
With the industries of coal and slate and the business of shipping in Cardiff Bay, comes another side to life. The working class would turn their hands to anything to make ends meet as the rich got richer and poverty ensued.
The red-light district of the local area, famously known as Tiger Bay, thrived with visiting ships from afar, sailors seeking that one night of escape before back on the treacherous seas, never knowing whether they would make it or not to their next port safely.
And so, the ladies of the night would don their finest evocative clothes, scrub their working hands, and paint their cracked nails with tardy varnishes that had just come to fashion.
Two Victorian shillings for a night or less, the equivalent of forty pounds today, saw a sailor leave and reboard his ship to seek his next love across the sea.
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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