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CATEGORIES:Sedgwick Club talks
SUMMARY:Linking Geology and Art in the field - insights fr
 om mountains and fold-thrust structures - Phoebe S
 leath - University of Aberdeen
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241104T180000
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UID:TALK223648AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/223648
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe’s presentation will discuss her journey int
 o field sketching and how this inspires her PhD re
 search on the field interpretation of structural g
 eology. On a break during PhD fieldwork at St Brid
 es Haven in Pembrokeshire\, Phoebe started to pain
 t the landscape in watercolours and found it compl
 etely changed the way she saw the rocks. \n \n“I p
 ainted the vibrant viridian sea and the deep cobal
 t sky\, and then I moved to the rocks\, thick pain
 t for the Winsor red mudstones and diluted washes 
 for the pale grey sandstones. As I painted the win
 d blew the clouds away from the sun and the light 
 changed\, moving and deepening the shadows. I mixe
 d red and blue for dark purple to bring out the di
 fferent faults and fractures. I realised that I wa
 s looking at the rocks in a different way\, that p
 ainting was guiding my thoughts\, and creating my 
 scientific method. I felt a beautiful clarity and 
 connection\, in both looking at the landscape as a
  whole and the rocks and structure in all their de
 tails. I was enjoying being in the scientific proc
 ess. I started to ask myself questions\, had other
  geologists been here before me? Had they sat in t
 he same spot? Had they seen the outcrop in the sam
 e way?”\n\nWith a sketchbook and palette in hand P
 hoebe went on further PhD fieldwork in Tuscany and
  Switzerland\,  fieldtrips across the UK and Europ
 e\, and climbing and hiking trips all over Scotlan
 d. PhD work includes the interpretation of fold th
 rust structures in the field and how our perceptio
 n of an outcrop is impacted by methods and viewpoi
 nt. The talk will include a viewing of her short f
 ilm - The Lost Art of the Land - a sailing and pai
 nting expedition around the Small Isles to discove
 r the geology and landscape in the footsteps of ea
 rly geologists.
LOCATION:Harker 1 lecture room\, Department of Earth Scienc
 es\, Downing Site
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