Here’s Maen Bradwen, or Carreg Bica on Mynydd Drummau Mountain in Neath Port Talbot. It’s a massive stone and local legend has it that it bathes in the River Neath / Afon Nedd on Easter morning. I did this while I was travelling around South Wales with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and prehistorian Dewi Bowen while he was researching material for his latest book.
I worked onto stretched Fabriano paper (240gsm) that I’d prepared with textured gesso and compressed charcoal, and used Daler Rowney soft pastels and Conté Crayons in sanguine, black and white, outside in the field.
It’s a pretty hefty stone and it’s been incorporated into a fence and wrapped in barbed wire and stands on a well-used unmade road up the mountain.
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