It was the
evening of the midsummer solstice
Ambling round the coastal path,
basking sharks were lurking off the headland, cinnabar moths as vibrant
as coral, fluttered on the campion and foxgloves marking the track that
leads into an old pig farm. Surprisingly, there aren't any rusty ruins
of corrugated sheds and styes but imposing sculptures rising up from
the meadow grass, so perfectly unpretentious they are breathtaking.
Terence
Coventry was a pig farmer who changed careers twenty years ago
to become a sculptor, his work is strongly figurative, expressing the
fundamentals of his life as a countryman, stimulated and inspired by
the landscape of granite. Petrified gulls scream, rooks caw, bulls bellow
and boars roar from their podia, creating a relationship with the terrain
which is integral through artistic precision that has both economy and
elegance of geometric grace.
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Similarly 'quirky' - please stay with
me on this one as it reads like the stuff of folklore. Imagine a crescent
moon replacing the setting sun in the western sky, the camels have gone
to bed, but this isn't midnight at the oasis and I really wouldn't
recommend the belly dancers. It's simply another farmer who has diversified
not into the stereotypical farm shop with homemade ice cream and carrot
cake, but camels!
The Oates family at Rosuick, who have
worked their land for centuries and produce organic beef, pork and lamb,
needed something original to attract visitors to their farmshop and diversified,
not into the stereotypical model of homemade ice cream and carrot cake,
but Camels! These were imported from Bulgaria and have settled into the
Cornish lifestyle, having produced several adorable babies. CORNISH
CAMELS is now a venue for civil wedding ceremonies in the old corn chamber and
cob barn..oh, and then there's the wallabies!
The summer green of fields has been cut for hay
and is replaced by stubble as tawny as a buzzard's wing, the scent
of sun-warmed honeysuckle fills the air and young swallows are learning
to fly. For all our visitors; your journey will be worthwhile!
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