An Old Kent Road Watercolor
c. 2006 Michael St.Mark
Through the car windscreen on another rain-lashed traffic-choked evening heading N. on the Old Kent Road, SE London.
We believe the first use of through-rain drops on a windscreen/window -to the external subject within art.
*Update 2018; the concept now so ubiquitous in use as to be almost a sub-genre within photography.
Film-maker Abbas Kiarostami copied the idea the following year to make his Rain Series ( 2007 ); claims ” its an idea I’ve had for a long time”. Well….
That must be why it took him a long time to simply point-and-shoot through his own car windscreen on a rainy day – M. St.M
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links to other works;
A Newton Stewart Watercolor
A Moffat Watercolor
Bank Holiday Driptych
Scottish Water plumber callout
15 years on; ( 2021 ) the effect we pioneered still being used by the BBC weather service to indicate unsettled & wet forecasts
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That one reminds me of coming home from work in November time.It wasn`t Old Kent Road but it looks just the same,dark,wet and full of bloomin traffic;)
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It’s the best way to see it, Lyn – from the inside of a cosy campervan. . .
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I was usually on a bus. Dont suppose it looked much different from that window than it did in the camper van;)
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