Llantrisant Church, Anglesey, 1946
Ink, chalk and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
37.5 x 50.5 cm
14 3/4 x 19 7/8 in
14 3/4 x 19 7/8 in
Signed lower left
Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse
Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse
Provenance
Dr. John Birch Collection, Uk
Exhibitions
Pallent House Gallery, Chichester (2005-2012)
Literature
Poets in the landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art by Simon Martin, 2007 (illistrated)
"Walls [are] made largely of the igneous rock of the Snowdon area[...] and only walls which have been built of stone that was lying in the open for thousands of years before it was appropriated is there a neatness. The walls are richly mossed, and small-leaved ivy is thrown over them here and there, its stalks, self-coloured brownish grey like some of the stones, knotting in the crevices. There's one very odd thing about painters who like drawing architecture. They hardly ever like drawing the architecture of their own time. I know perfectly well I would rather paint a ruined abbey half-covered with ivy and standing among long grass than I would paint it after it has been taken over by the Office of Works, when they have taken all the ivy off and mown all the grass." (John Piper)