Peter Faulkner, Coracle-Maker

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As a young lad growing up in the north Herefordshire village of Leintwardine, Peter Faulkner was never happier than when he was playing with his three brothers on the banks of the River Teme and in the woods nearby. It was a childhood idyll that stayed with him throughout a varied career in the Merchant Navy, insurance and running a special needs unit for children with learning difficulties. Born in 1942, he still works part-time in special education, but his life changed forever after he and his family moved back to the village, and the river, where he grew up. He still had his childhood dream of voyaging along the Teme, but he wasn’t sure quite how to do it. His eureka moment came in 1987 when he went to the River Severn to visit Eustace Rogers who was carrying on the age-old tradition of making coracles, the small saucer-shaped keelless boats made out of waterproof hides stretched over a wicker frame.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters People's Portraits collection at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge

Title

Peter Faulkner, Coracle-Maker

Date

2000

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 46 x W 44 cm

Accession number

463

Acquisition method

on loan from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Work type

Painting

Signature/marks description

signature

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