Back in 1987 a Labyrinth was cut into the turf in Swansea’s Rosehill Quarry, a unique urban wildlife park. It was installed by Bob Shaw and local author and pre-historian Dewi Bowen. It’s based on an ancient Cretan design and the incised path is filled with crushed cockle shells that are a by-product of the local seafood industry. Every year local people meet up, bring a picnic to share and recut the labyrinth edges and refill the path with new cockle shells, donated by Swansea Council.
I strolled up the hill today and found a good point to have a scribble. I did a few quick preliminary sketches into a tiny sketchbook and then worked up this larger one into my Khadi landscape book, using Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens sizes S and M, and Derwent Inktense watercolour blocks.
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