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Wren's Nest Caves, Dudley

Sibylle Cole-Duijts, 1920-2000

Oil painting of the Seven Sister Caverns at Wren’s Nest, Dudley, by Dutch-born artist Sibylle Cole-Duijts (1920-2000). Painted in bold impasto style and dates to the mid 1950s

Sibylle was born and brought up in Amsterdam but lived most of her adult life in the United Kingdom. She trained at Birmingham School of Art in the 1940s. She exhibited widely throughout her life at places including the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery and Feren’s Art Gallery in Hull.

Wren's Nest Caves, Dudley, is an oil painting of the Seven Sister Caverns at Wren's Nest, Dudley. It is painted in bold impasto style and dates to the mid 1950s.

The Seven Sisters Cavern is so called as it had seven pillars which supported the roof for limestone mining.

The oil painting is large in size and captures the cathedral like presence of these caverns which are part of a National Nature Reserve and the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark. The layers of rock of this exceptional limestone geology are from the Silurian period 427.7 to 429 million years old, captured by the waves of colour in this painting.