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Wednesday, December 03, 2008, 12:06
But to Paulton artist Rebecca Cains, a scrapyard is a place of beauty. She set up her easel in Allan Hall's Hallmark yard at Radstock, and the result was a glowing work which has won a place in the largest open art exhibition in the region.
Halls' Reclamation, Radstock, will be hung near another Cains picture of industrial waste, Disused Petrol Station, at the Royal West of England Academy's autumn exhibition, running at the academy's gallery in Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol, until Sunday, December 14.
Ms Cains' taste for industrial desolation – the petrol station is on Bath's Lower Bristol Road – has won her the opportunity of a two-week, one-person exhibition at the Create centre, Bristol, in September, 2009.
She said: "The dark, subdued colours of a once coal-mining area, Radstock, for me hold beauty and nostalgia, and the shapes of the scrap cars make interesting compositions."
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