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fact I can work around my family, I get to explore so many beautiful parts of the West County and the UK capturing breath-taking scenes and brightening up people’s homes. It still doesn’t seem real that my paintings are hanging in galleries and homes across the UK!
"When the towers were removed I knew I had to paint them. Their impressive presence and power was relatively short- lived in the grand scheme of things, but their structures buckled and warped with their collapse, making what was once so modern seem fragile and old. Talking to people locally about what was happening made me realise the strength of feeling people had for them; love them or hate them, like Marmite there really is no in-between.”
When asked what she hopes for the future of the site, she looks wistful for a moment before replying: “I want to be able to welcome the next stage of Rampisham Down with excitement, and while I know it will never return to being the iconic structure it once was, I’m hoping I will be able to grow to love it once more.”
With around 10 acres of commercial land, over 66,000 sq. ft. of floor space, equipment, machinery stores and an engineering workshop, this distinctive site has the potential to become something quite special. Perhaps a retreat facility or a conference centre, while the extensive grounds provide scope for an adventure activities business.
Rampisham Down is special in so many ways; designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 2014 for its
grasslands and heathland habitat and with a peregrine falcon nesting site, whoever decides to buy this piece of history will have more than just a communications facility to consider.
If you would like to arrange a viewing of Rampisham Down contact Robert Clark MRICS, Commercial Partner, at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s Yeovil office on:
01935 423474.
Esther Jeanes’s painting ‘Rampisham is Down’ was exhibited
as part of the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2018. Her paintings have also been exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, selected as part of the Jackson’s Open Painting Prize longlist and will also be part of the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2018. To see more of her work you can visit: www.estherjeanes.com
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