New linocuts

Penderyn Church Collage

Its along time since I first visited Penderyn Church and ended up making a large collage of the place based largely on drawings from memory. I decided recently to rework the original image (now on display at the Coliseum Theatre in Aberdare) using collagraph and linocut with collage.

Red Church mono/lino/collagraph/cutout

Each print is a lot smaller than the original but hopefully has some of its character. This one is in red but I have done another in blue. As well as the monoprints there is another smaller reworking of the original as collage

New collage detail

St Cynogs again

Added to and cropped picture, will put on one side and look at it again in a few weeks time

St Cynogs Church, Penderyn

Right at the top of the Cynon valley, Penderyn Church feels like stepping back in time.

The churchyard is largely encouraged to return to nature and most of the gravestones are gradually being covered in rank grasses while sapling trees are starting to turn parts into woodland. This picture (in progress) is based on a couple of pencil sketches drawn on a wonderful sunny autumn day. I decided to do the collage from memory so there are probably a lot more gravestones than in reality.