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289. The canal painter keeping traditional art alive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2023
- Paintings of roses and castles are about as traditional on the canals of Britain as it's possible to be - but why? Why roses? And castles? And how do you paint them? I went to see a artist and historian Kay Andrews on her boat as as well as Penny Arscott, Manager of Foxton Locks Museum to find out.
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I always forget to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to create and maintain a chronological video playlist. Not enough creators do that. Great to see a new video.
Agreed. Even if I watch then out of order the numbering helps me ground the story in your timeline.
Knob stick immediately brings to my mind the rest the sign writers use with the soft ball on the end.
It took me five lines of rambling detail to say that.
Cheers. I'm told that's a "mahlstick" although it's quite feasible the workers at the boatyard would have called it knobstick; the term "knobstick" in canal art specifically refers to the style of the roses of Bill Hodgson at the Anderton Boat Company, as shown in the piece. I've also read that knobstick was a term for someone who refused to join in a trade union!
David's voice and diction adds a lot to every video, this was something he was born to do.
Thank you
I have to say that while I do miss the cruising videos, you are doing an amazing job of finding and showing amazing canal related subject mater. Thank you.
Another good story about the canals, Thanks.
I thought last vlog was the pinnacle of your career.... but this knocked it even further out of the proverbial ballpark!
A short but very informative vlog. Another masterpiece, Dave. Thank you.
While sailing the Mon & Brec last year, we quickly became enamoured with this unique and charming canalware and made it our mission to return to Canada with a few pieces as treasured souvenirs! Mission accomplished! Two lovely pieces painted by a local artist in the Black Mountains of Wales.
I thought I watched all your videos that picked my interests but apparently there are still hidden gems. Incredible
Being from the states, my love of canal boats came about in a round about way. I was at an antique store in Boston and I saw a watering can painted in castles and roses. The tag read "UK Canal Boat Art" I fell in love with it, begged the woman at check out to take my money so I could learn about my latest's find. I have purchased several instructional and history books on the subject since. That was 10 years ago, My love of Canal Boats has grown ever since. I do wish I could retire on one.
The "Knobstick" is a reference to the signwriters maulstick - its a soft cloth/leather knob on a stick to support the hand
Cheers. It's quite feasible the workers at the boatyard would have called it knobstick I'm sure! The term "knobstick" in canal art specifically refers to the style of the roses of Bill Hodgson at the Anderton Boat Company, as shown in the piece. I've also read that knobstick was a term for someone who refused to join in a trade union!
Another very good history lesson for me
Wonderful to see the lovely Kay in action, and hear her speak about the history of her art. Proud owner of several of Kay’s pieces ❤️
Another wonderful interesting fact in the world of canal boating. This is an example of traditional canal boaters allowing some time for relaxation and a creative outlet. Thanks David for introducing this art to us.
Your channel is the best of the canal vlogs on TH-cam. Well done.
Thank you
Appreciate the opportunity to learn about Narrowboat art. Nice to see how it's done. Thanks for sharing. Be well and stay safe.
From Deb Sims…This was brilliant, David. Of great interest to me as I’m a watercolor artist. The bright painting of canal boats has always been part of their charm for me. Thank you!
Thank you David for another bit of Narrowboat History. I was always curious about they way many of the working boats are decorated, as well as many live-aboards. Interesting that the history has, for the most part, escaped documentation, yet became tradition.
"Knob stick" might refer to the painter's mahlstick, with the leather 'knob' at the end, used to rest their wrist on to steady their brush hand. It would be what a laymen would likely notice about an artist painting on the hull and topsides of a boat rocking in the water. Good video. Enjoyed it. When I get around to sailing to England....I'll get Kay Andrews to paint a few roses on my boat.
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Thanks, David, for another fascinating and informative look at canal culture--well done!
Knob stick , come across quite a few of them in my life
I like these canal background videos.
Thank you David for always looking out for new features on you channel. I enjoy it immensely, maybe down the road you may encounter other avenues of craftsmanship. Like sewing, photography, wood carving, sculpture even preserving older wood burning stoves. Have a blessed day.
Great vlog on canal art and and the artists keeping this tradition afloat :) I’m always happy to learn about livaboard businesses on the network and to support them, as an ex narrow-boater. Thanks & keep them coming 👏🏻👍
Thank you David and the ladies. Love the educational aspect of the latest videos. This one is especially interesting.
Fantastic to see people keeping the old traditions alive. Kay makes it look so simple with a few swishes of her brush, but I'm sure it takes more than a bit of practice and a dollop of talent!
What a very talented Lady she is. Thank you for giving us the chance to see her amazing skill develop from a blank piece to a completed work of art.
Very interesting seeing the items from bygone days.
What a wonderful, informative and most interesting vlog 👍 thank you
Very interesting. What a talented lady. Beautiful work. Most enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
I loved the way Kay recycled opened (and washed) sardine (other fish are available) peel back lid tins to cleanse her brushes in. I'd bet she is a dab hand at routine maintenance.
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My grandfather was captain of the Clee and Perch for FMC,he was always painting and making rope fenders.I’m pretty sure some of his is at the museum.He did a series of interviews for BBC radio stoke in the 1980s about living and working on the canals.
beautiful !
Wonderful vibrant artworks. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Where and how traditions arise, is one of those questions which are often impossible to answer.
You’ve done your best to explain something of which I’ve long been curious. Thanks for another informative video.
WOW THAT WAS INTERESTING 😊 I thought that the joke I need my sunglasses to look at that was not that old (relatively speaking) but I guess it's I bit trolling it's been done in one form or another since time immemorial. David KEEP IT UP WE NEED THIS TYPE OF CONTENT MORE THAN EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Almost makes one want to build a canal side pub named the Rose & Castle. Anyone visiting could try their hand at painting a scene and the canvas could be hung in the pub for all to see. lol
Thank you for another interesting and informative documentary style vlog. I’m loving them ❤
Nice little document of a great little folk art . Well done David.
Lovely vlog David, thank you so much ☺️
Love the art work. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.😀😀
Nice one, always good to know where it comes from.
On today's episode of Things I Didn't Know I Wanted To Know..........:D Very good episode. I rather like these little history lessons. :)
Although I'm not hugely interested in the subject, the effort that has gone into producing this and the quality of the videography had me hooked. I'd love to see a comparison side by side to your earlier videos as these really are top notch. Good work and thanks again David.
Thank you
Thanks again, kind sir, for the insights.
David -- this is another "home run" as a Yank might say. It's a subject many must have been curious about for a long time and you were the one to do it. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the article quoted appeared in Dickens's Household Words for it is just the sort of "homely" subject that would have caught his eye. There's probably another video on this subject if you can assemble a collection of original works gathered over time. Keep it up!
I'm not sure how I missed this one, especially as I've always wondered about the art style. I'm not entirely surprised to learn we don't know how it started. It was fascinating, regardless. Thanks David!
Thank you
It reminds me of trucks and lorries, the air brushed art on them seems to be done in a very distinct and recognizable style, as if there's only two or three people painting all of them - and they are closely related too.
What a delightful vlog! Thank you for sharing. Terrific as usual.
Very much enjoyed that vlog, thank you.👋
Well done, David! Your journalism is superb. I'd love to see a documentary about the life of a canal boat worker in the late 19th or early 20th century or about narrowboating of that era.
Also, does anyone remember a fairly recent feature film about a narrowboating couple and their hired man who ends up having an affair with the woman?
Oh I just found it. it was Young Adam! Starring Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Ewan Stewart and Emily Mortimer.
David
I wonder if you can find someone to do an interview on canal wildlife. When a new portion of canal is reopened how does this enhance wildlife. In general how have canals changed or sustained ecosystems over the past 250 years
It's on my plan 😀
The appearance of roses and castles may be related to British cultural history in the following ways.
Your videos focus on canals which were built just over 260 years ago. This was about 300 years after the War of the Roses. The iconography of that War of the Roses history is carried on in both British art and it's gardens. Many of the canals pass near historic castles. It is in part due to the passing down of cultural iconography that stems from that history.
In another of your videos I commented on my family connection to canal history. The Coventry Canal Company was formed in 1768. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal had its first organizing meeting in 1766 with construction starting in 1770.
My 2nd cousin 4x removed George James Crosbie Dawson was the Chief Engineer of the North Staffordshire Railway in the late 1800s during which time he was also responsible for maintaining the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. His son George also became an engineer for the Coventry Canal.
George James Crosbie Dawson was the 1st cousin 1x removed of Pudsey Dawson High Sherriff of Lancashire who was willed Hornby Castle by Admiral Sanford Tatham after he won the court battle of John Marsden's will.
The Pudsey and Dawson family go back to the history of the War of Roses with family on opposite sides. Closer to the time period of the family mentioned above are connections to the Shuttleworth family founders of the Clayton and Shuttleworth Company. Clayton connects to the Dawson family and I am searching for the connection to this company as well as to Clayton and Fellows which is a company well known in canal history. Who knows, there may be a connection to canal art with influences from my family history.
How I wish I could have a cuppa and a biscuit with that lady 👍
Witnessing the progression of her painting was wonderful and a nice touch of production. Well done, sir.
Such talent she has! A true artist saving this old style. Awesome! Touches are lovely on the boats, but should not be overdone. Just touches. I’ve seen boats where it’s on everything. For me, used only as an accent.
When your home is your castle - and your home is a boat, than painting a castle on your boat makes kind of sense. :)
I'm currently researching in anticipation of repainting my boat in the spring, and literally yesterday finished reading 'Narrow Boat Painting' by AJ Lewery, an excellent book.
thanks for this very interesting facet to narrow boating, well done sir
Just lovely
I’ve wondered for quite a while about the artwork 🖼 Thanks so much!
Really interesting story , thanks David.
Fully professional production as ever, lighting sound and editing perfect.
Thank you
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Is it possible the reason it's always castles and roses as a symbol of England, especially the England of old? Isn't England's national flower a rose?
Really enjoyed that, great to see the painting progress throughout, I now wonder if that’s where Rosie the TV ragdoll got her name from, probably obvious to everyone but me. Loved the use of the word paraphernalia very early on. Thanks 🌹🏰
It was interesting to hear about the painting of Buckby cans at Long Buckby Wharf. In the book 'Idle Women' chronicling the work of women on the canals during the war, they had to order their water cans from Long Buckby. I ordered my Buckby can over 40 years ago from Long Buckby and it was painted to order by Ron Hough, although I believe he was based in Braunston. If I recall correctly, he was apprenticed to Frank Nurser at Samuel Barlow's yard and continued the Braunston style of painting. I can recommend Tony Lewry's book 'narrowboat painting'.
Apart from Burg Eltz ,all castles along the Rhine and Mosel were built for defense purposes. When they saw the enemy coming up or down the river,they would warn the next castle ,which was ,if not in sight,but in earshot(?) of one another.
Thank you very much for yet another great canal video. I would just like to tell you that I really enjoy this type of interview, where the interviewer is not cutting the interviewee, there is only your voice over giving further explanation, that way we can get the most from the specialists being interviewed.
I hope this channel will keep on growing so you can continue producing such good quality material. Cheers!
Rather interesting - Being of Norwegian decent I know some of this as "rosemaling". Thanks for the widening my view of the subject.
Very enjoyable vlog, thank you David.
Your a great journalist David. Doubly so because you brought us Knob Art.
Lovely vlog!! Thank you!!
I spent a month in India last year, and many places we went, they were selling metalwares with art that was very similar to this, including water cups, tea mugs, etc.
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In 1974 I spend Christmas on the Long boat in Little Venice, I remember seeing some films on Narrowboat living and art at the Royal Museum, don’t know if they still exist. I was 25 years old and now I’m 73 time flies.
Great Vlog David, enjoy this type of art!!
Great information from knowledgeable people!
Very interesting. Thank you!
That was fascinating! I had no idea.
Very interesting vlog David, well done
I've always been a bit curious about canal art, so thank you for this interesting look at that particular world.
Thanks so much for this explanation. The first time I saw a narrowboat was in an episode of Happy Valley, when the villain took refuge in one. I googled something like "boats decorated like circuses in England" because I had no explanation of what they were and really wondered if a circus might be in town and this guy was squatting. Understanably, I didn't find anything, so didn't really get it till running across your channel. On a more philosophical note, it seems an example of people using art to bring their own kind of beauty even into the smallest of spaces.
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As per usual David, you spoil us rotten with "your" sort of vignettes on canal life.
Thanks very much.
What a lovely vlog, Thanks Dave!
Another fantastic video. Thanks David
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Thank you David, another wonderful vlog. I have often wondered why all the artworks have a set of basic elements to the scene. I guess the whole story is lost somewhere in the sands of time. The little details are well known about the different styles I never really noticed. The things that make you hmmm. As always thank you for the work you put into producing such a high quality product. Cheers
Thanks again to you and your guests. Another interesting vlog for my coffee break.
HAHA I am watching video number 207 on the TV and now this on the PC. You are everywhere David
Thank you for yet another great video. I have always loved the paintings and wondered if they did it themselves or if some boat painters specialized in it
I certainly enjoyed it.
Fascinating thanks.
Such a well crafted video.
Brilliant David. Really enjoyable. Thanks for sharing.
And as usual fun, informative, and a real pleasure to watch. Thank you!
very interesting , thank you David
Fascinating!
Lovely video. Thank you David!
It's simply fascinating. Thank you David.
Beautiful work. Thank you, David.
This is really cool. Very impressive indeed.
Thanks for the wonderful look at canal art history!
Very enjoyable..thank you.