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.

"Fishermen who walk the cliff paths or the beaches at night hear the drowned men 'hailing their names,' calling dismally from out of the dark waters." 

p. 46, Unknown Cornwall

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.