I’ve been coming to this festival for a few years and for the last two I thought why not try and capture it, I wonder what drawings it will create.

I love the looseness of the drawings, and the expressive marks especially and the scale! The part I try and capture is the final journey that happens at Chapel Porth. Where Bolster is defeated.

There isn’t any time to spend trying to perfect, I just have to go for it and not look at my paper because otherwise I’ll miss something even more exciting.

The first year it rained for the entire show and I was in awe at how the puppeteers carried on performing on the cliffs. The second year I managed to fill in a few gaps of what I couldn’t capture before, and I hope to continue this project until I capture the full story.

“The children scream as the Giant’s head appears into view, the drums roll, the mayor quivers with fear, the knights horse rears its head in anticipation of battle, as the gentle St Anne plots her plan. The cliffs are lined with onlookers in the thousands; this is the scene set out on the stunning cliffs at St Agnes’ Chapel Porth beach each May Bank Holiday weekend as part of the village’s annual Bolster Festival. It tells the tale of the Giant Bolster, who having ravaged the locality and terrified the locals is finally brought his comeuppance by a fair village maiden.” -Bolster festival Wordpress.com-