The walkway that runs parallel with Tudor Lane and connects the centre car walk and Station Way has seven recesses areas, each with a seating area built into the wall and well covered with a glass canopy having a promenade feel. Opposite the walls is an incline with well established evergreen planting.
My first walkabout in the town revealed many architectural features that had visual possibility. I look for shapes and distinctive features that can become part of a composition. Something inherent in what is already made. A kind of transformation. Featured
elements from my first walkabout include Tom Norton Cycles; cycling (referencing the National Cycling Museum); decorative features from Williams Butchers building, Temple Street; the griffin derived from Castel Collen particularly referncing the iron work griffin on the refurbished Exchange House Spa Road; Middleton Street floor tiling; cheese making machines (museum); the abstract work of Islwyn Watkins (museum); Kilvert (museum) and the railway.  |
| Middleton Street Floor Tiles |
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| Art Deco Tom Norton Cycle building, now National Cycle Museum |
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| Hygeia, emblem of the town, to feature in design |
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| Turner Company cheese making machine from Newtown |
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| Fantastic shapes, the arms bend |
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| Griffin on Exchange House, Spa Road |
Castel Collen Griffin
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| String course along Williams Butchers, Temple Street |
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| Islwyn Watkins (1938 - 2018) |
Following the walkabout and reflection on the themes around the town of Llandrindod Wells, I resolved to make an idea of a frieze like work using all seven of the recess areas of the walkway. I recently was in the British Museum and looking at the Parthenon frieze. The horizontal continual visual dialogue seemed to resonate with the walkway project.
First sketchbook ideas began to develop.
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