Spooky historical painting inspires student's work
Examples of Dulcy Lott's work for the 2009 Degree Show.
A photography student's childhood fear of a spooky Victorian mural, discovered in her family home, inspired her to use it to create an unusual final year Degree Show.
As a young child Dulcy Lott was scared of the unique painted mural, believed to be almost 130 years old, which was discovered in her family home in 1999.
But Dulcy has used the ten feet high painting of countryside and animals to great effect in an exhibition to mark the end of her BA (Hons) Photography course.
The mural, which had been wallpapered over, was uncovered in a downstairs room by Dulcy's mother. Her historical research had dated it back to the 1880s, when it's thought it had been painted by one of two sisters who then lived in the house.
Dulcy said: "I grew up with it. You had to pass the room it was in to get to the bathroom and I remember being a bit scared of it, and running to pass the door."
"When it came time to do the dissertation for my degree course, I thought of combining some work I'd done on Victorian Spiritualism with the image of the wall, and real people standing in front of it but photographed to look out of focus and ghostly."
"I actually found the images on the wall jumped out at me more when photographed than when I'd just looked at them with the naked eye."
