Friday 29 July 2011

Market Hall, Crickhowell

Work in progress, 6"x4" linocut of market hall and adjoining shops.

Sunday 24 July 2011

The Bear, Crickhowell

Black and white linocut, 6 x 4 inches approx of The Bear public house in Crickhowell. This is in preparation for the celebration exhibition at the Cric Resource Centre which I am taking part in from next week.

http://www.willowarch.co.uk/gallery_367649.html#photos_id=8183713

Friday 22 July 2011

Aberdare Montage

This linocut print shows from top left to right;
The Constitutional Club its 'precipitous pavilion roof in the centre surmounted by an enormous ironwork crown'. 1894.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1867, remodelled 1894.
Temperence Hall. New facade. Originally1858.
Statue of Griffith Rhys Jones(Caradog) in Victoria Square. 1920.
Old Court House, 'an agressive and rather ugly neo-Baroque facade'. 1914.
Second row (l-r);
The Black Lion Hotel
National School 1848?
Midland Bank, Grey Newbridge rock-faced stone and Bath stone ashlar. Barryesque palazzo style.1857.
Bottom row(l-r);
Higher Standard School. (Now girls comp) Pennant sandstone dressed with red Wilderness ashlar .1905.
St David's Presbyterian Church. Geometrical gothic. 1878.
Market 'an ashlar pedimented temple front with paired Tuscan pillars'  1853
Quotes from Pevsner Buildings of Glamorgan.
http://www.willowarch.co.uk/gallery_367649.html#photos_id=8183739

Friday 8 July 2011

St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny


A3 size, mixed media on paper.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Pandy Chapel

Pandy Chapel just off the A465 between Llangua and Abergavenny. Mixed media, about A3 size.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Change of plan

Have decided to repeat the Aberdare Museum axhibition at Dare Valley Country Park. This is an ink sketch of a chapel in Abergavenny.