Ellie Baker - Druidale
It is a place where a family once lived. A home. In a windswept valley by a winding road. Stand inside
and look up. You will see the sky. The rain now falls where people sat and talked. Dandelions and
nettles have found a place to grow amongst the fallen debris. And in the cracks and crevices of an old
home. Moss blurs the edges of the stonework. Leaves rustle. You can imagine a time. When.
“A Yorkshire gentleman, who had taken up his abode in lonely Druidale many years before, and there
devoted himself to farming a large tract of wild mountain land. His society consisted of woodcock,
snipe and other wild birds and trout”. (Brooke, 1991)
To draw what was once a home. To notice that it now does not dominate the land. Time has faded.
Nature is equal to the ruins and is depicted thus. The trees and leaves and moss and nettles grow in a
windswept valley by a winding road. And they remember the days before.
Ref: Brooke, M. (1991) “Notes on the Brooke Family in the Isle of Man”, series MS 13470, Manx
National Heritage, Library and Archive, Manx Museum, Douglas.
Medium: graphite on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 29 cm
and look up. You will see the sky. The rain now falls where people sat and talked. Dandelions and
nettles have found a place to grow amongst the fallen debris. And in the cracks and crevices of an old
home. Moss blurs the edges of the stonework. Leaves rustle. You can imagine a time. When.
“A Yorkshire gentleman, who had taken up his abode in lonely Druidale many years before, and there
devoted himself to farming a large tract of wild mountain land. His society consisted of woodcock,
snipe and other wild birds and trout”. (Brooke, 1991)
To draw what was once a home. To notice that it now does not dominate the land. Time has faded.
Nature is equal to the ruins and is depicted thus. The trees and leaves and moss and nettles grow in a
windswept valley by a winding road. And they remember the days before.
Ref: Brooke, M. (1991) “Notes on the Brooke Family in the Isle of Man”, series MS 13470, Manx
National Heritage, Library and Archive, Manx Museum, Douglas.
Medium: graphite on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 29 cm