Barbwire

 Acrylic on canvas 

This is one of my Bridgwater Circle series of paintings belonging to the Bolt & Fixings set. The image was captured near the canal bridge at old Taunton Road, Bridgwater, Somerset.

I grew up with barbed wire on the farm in Dorset, so a very familiar sight to me, but not quite so commonplace in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset.

I really enjoyed painting this in its carnival colours. Likewise, I realise that often barbed wire is used in bad situations, including war and imprisonment, designed to be dangerous. Its normal connotations are often dark in nature, but here it is doing a fine job keeping up an old fence embedded in the wood which is time-worn, greyed, softened and lined with age. Just a beautiful memory of my childhood.

 Original photograph taken 10 ‎November ‎2018, ‏‎15:29:10