A wolf in shadow

 Old animals in older caves

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery

26th July 2018

 

As Buxton Museum's contribution to the Festival of Archaeology, we had a morning of working on “cave drawings” and generally being inspired by the animals we find in the bone pits and caves of the Peaks….

We shaped a wolf in paper,

Another stood, a darkness,

A mammoth haired with tissue,

A beaver slaps a card tail,

Newts sport dragon crests and colours,

Bears watch from cave walls and

A painted pug on a stone ledge waits.

Past rabbits, and rams horns, a well-browed moose,

Beyond a horse, reindeer and a rare cave fish,

Shadows hold the silence where the sabretooths wait.

With many thanks to all our artists and their wild imaginations and readiness to improvise and invent new ways of decorating cave walls….