Mayo Landscape

Jos Mahon – ? – 1978

Photograph from ‘A Sense of Place’ 1984 by Jos Mahon

Material: Wood

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Landscape

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: Unknown

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “I found the weathered lumps of oak trunk in a local foresters yard. They were partially buried beneath layers of moss and turf which I pulled away to expose them. I liked their strong, simple forms, some bearing the mark of a saw made many years ago. I took them back to my workshop where they lay around on shelves for a few months, their shapes outlined against the whitewashed walls.”

From Aspects Journal of Art #7, seemingly showing the piece before it was cemented into position.

The sculpture re creates the look of tree stumps sat on shelves in a workshop. The look of which was reminiscent of the landscape in County Mayo, Ireland. It was created outside of Grizedale as Jos explains “At Northern Arts suggestion, I sited the work in Grizedale Forest.”

I don’t know where it was sited, only that “I walked the 10 mile length of the Silurian Way… and at the end of the ‘trail’ found a large clearing. It seemed the logical and proper setting for the sculpture.” Not listed on 1981 map, must have gone by then.

 

 

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