Painting Pembroke Castle Doorway Painting by Edward McNaught-Davis

Painting Pembroke Castle Doorway

by Edward McNaught-Davis

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Title

Painting Pembroke Castle Doorway

Artist

Edward McNaught-Davis

Medium

Painting - Watercolour On Paper

Description

Painting Pembroke castle doorway was a joy to do as primarily I love castles and especially ancient stone steps and doorways. On top of this I used watercolour to make a change from using thicker paint such as oils and acrylic.

I used watercolour paper of a substantial weight to support this painting. This was necessary as I had no time to prepare a lesser paper to prevent it buckling from copious quantities of water; used for the various washes and transparent glazes.

My Pembroke castle scene shows the interior of a corridor on an upper floor within its keep. This is the stronghold of the whole castle.

The view is from the stairwell of turreted steps. This was the only place I could stand upright although that in itself was more of a balancing act due to the small width steps and inadequate headroom.

For most of the time, I had to stand on one foot as the spiral stone steps were not of a particular uniform size and depth.

There were a few other tourists at the time of my visit with some pushing past me to get to the area I was trying to paint so I gave up trying to paint in situ. Sketches were made and photographs were taken instead so that I could complete the painting from the comfort of my studio.

The light captured in this painting does give it a fairly spooky effect and this replicates its real life atmosphere quite well. There were moments when I did have the floor all to myself but each moment was only for about 10 minutes or so before more tourists arrived. I experienced an eerie feeling when alone and was pleased to get out of there. Being a small area it was claustrophobic too.

The people/soldiers in this castle’s heyday must have been quite small in stature as there is little room to move in any direction let alone to stand up fully.

One wall still displays a Norman soldier’s graffiti remark about his contempt for his officer! It is written in French and is protected under glass.

Pembroke castle is located in Pembroke and is best approached from the A4139 on Westgate Hill. You can read more about this castle interior painting on my blog of the same name.