“I’ve never seen so much interest in rocks!” exclaimed the
happy geologist from Devonport.
Far too many people were crowded into the LARQ gallery in
Queenstown for the opening of The Unconformity Project, and loving it.
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| The Iron Blow - some of the rocks that inspired Julian Cooper |
We
were surrounded by the wonderful bold, colourful paintings of Julian Cooper, LARQ Artist in Residence in
2011. Julian lives and works in Cumbria in the UK Lake District, and climbs
rocks and mountains when not painting. The rocks around the old Iron Blow are
not of great interest to a climber, but they inspired some terrific paintings,
and these are great, energetic celebrations of stone. Julian's rock walls are
alive and sparkling, reflecting harsh sunlight off uneven planes, hiding their
secrets in shadowed clefts.
