#StandingStoneSunday … Book of the Boar!

The book of the journey of the Boar Hunt (Y Twrch Trwyth) has been in print for a whole week and is selling well, with virtually no publicity, just word of mouth via social media. The book is based on the theory that the route of The Boar Hunt in the Mabinogion includes most of the major Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments across South Wales. Dewi has painstakingly mapped them and co-written this book (with Olwyn Pritchard) which is not just learned but also full of entertaining stories, humour and art. Many of the works I did out in the field – literally – are in a full colour centre spread including this one, Garreg Goch, The Red Stone which is in a hedge surrounded by barbed wire. It’s one of my favourite stones and favourite paintings.

I spent three years traipsing across the hidden (and mucky) places of South Wales with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams, drawing and painting along the way, while Dewi researched and Melvyn filmed.

The book is beautifully printed and available for £15.00 GBP plus postage and packing. Please contact me if you want to know more. And there will be a proper book launch in Swansea on March 31st at GS Artists on Swansea’s High Street.