Owen Boyle, Lightkeeper - Saint Just-in-Penwith Parish Church

 “St. Just alias Justini, being the very West Poynte of Cornewayle, where St. Just ys no thing, but a Paroch Chyrch … divers sparkeled Howses…”. 

In the windows of the parish church in St.Just is the story of Owen Boyle who died at 18-1/2.  He was the lightkeeper at the Longships Lighthouse.

Some how this story affected Sarah and I a lot and I can’t get Owen out of my mind.

When I was playing with typography I like the idea of the n falling away from the Owe in the name Owen (like it was drowning).

 I got inspired by the way the waves were rendered in this part of the stain glass window in the church.

I made some sketches changing the shape into a circle.

I worked a bit on tracing paper to design a linoleum block.

Here is how it printed.

Here's a final piece for Owen using the wave design.  The text is the same text from the stain glasses windows in the parish church in St. Just-in-Penwith repeated several times.

I like this border too.  I haven't done anything with them yet but maybe I will.

These are beautiful yellow roses. 

I love this net of prayer - how perfect for a church by the sea.  I need to figure out how to do something with this the net.  Maybe it can become a coordinate if I make this into a collection in the future.

Here is a mixed media piece I made for Owen.