No. 11 Jo Rodwell “Four experimental sketches around Fishergate Postern Tower” 1 2024 Ink
Artist’s note:
The colour studies of the Postern Tower allowed a different approach to creating compositions with a much more experimental technique. Sketches of different perspectives of the Postern Tower were developed and built upon using collage as the base and then acrylic paint. Colours were taken from those recorded when observing the flora and fauna on the bricks of the walls and the ramparts. Acrylic inks were used to add vibrancy and definition to the studies, and charcoal to add tone to the textures.
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FoYW’s note:
This shows how the wall-walk, up on York’s city walls, ends at Fishergate Postern Tower. The wall-walk goes straight to where the casing of a spiral stair stands out from the main tower wall, but there is no sign of any doorway through which guards could come directly from the tower onto the wall. There are such doorways at all the ‘bars’, the main fortified gateways on the walls. At Fishergate Postern today you get to the wall-walk by stone steps behind the white railings on the right. Away from the steps the wall-walk is not guarded by railings along this, relatively quiet and low length of the city walls –but on the non-city side of the wall-walk the defensive parapet is continuous.
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Using this image: The artist has the copyright for this work but has told us that they, like FoYW, are willing for this image of it to be used as if it was copyright-free providing the artist is credited.
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Posted February 2026 AF
