Fen Skating in Art and Music
Charles Whymper, husband of one of Potto Brown’s granddaughters, was well known for his skating scenes and portraits of skaters. JM Heathcote also drew skating scenes.
Duncan Stafford’s Fen-Skating Suite (for string quartet) was shortlisted for the Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize in 1990.
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Famous quotes containing the words fen, skating, art and/or music:
“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. All art is concerned with coming into being ... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being, by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)