Here’s the final tiny quick sketches I did in my little leather-bound sketchbook on Sunday. I was at Rosehill Quarry’s annual meet-up to tidy the Cretan Labyrinth. Each year the edges need to be recut, the old trampled cockle shells removed and new ones laid. The labyrinth was cut in 1987 when Swansea’s Rosehill Quarry wasContinue reading “The Last Of The Annual Cockling.”
Tag Archives: Dewi Bowen
More From The Annual Cockling.
A couple of very quick little sketches from the annual labyrinth maintenance at Rosehill Quarry. I had to work quickly because people moved fast. Very good practice though
The Annual Cockling.
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 localContinue reading “The Annual Cockling.”
#StandingStoneSunday: The Sketchbook Stones
When I was travelling around South Wales studying standing stones with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams, I generally worked onto large sheets of prepared paper. But sometimes I travelled light with just a brown paper sketchbook and it gave me a different insight into what I was drawing, I focused more on theContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday: The Sketchbook Stones”
#StandingStoneSunday
Here’s a favourite standing stone that I painted in the field while I was out and about with Dewi Bowen as he was researching his new book “Hunting The Wild Megalith”. It’s Garreg Coch in Carmarthenshire and it’s been protected for many years by a barbed wire fence. We’ll be at The Workers Gallery onContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday”
Revisiting The Stones.
The wonderful Maen Llia standings tone and a book signing in The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir of April 29th
#StandingStoneSunday
An illustrated front cover of a new book by Dewi Bowen, “Hunting The Wild Megaligh” with a wild boar, a capstone megalith, illustrations of mountains, valleys and coastlines. And a trail of ancient animals travelling across South Wales.
#StandingStoneSunday: The Book Launch
“Hunting The Wild Megalith“, the book of the journey of the Boar Hunt (Y Twrch Trwyth) is being launched this coming Friday (March 31st) at Swansea’s prestigious GS Artists gallery. 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 acrossContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday: The Book Launch”
#StandingStoneSunday … Book of the Boar!
Hunting the Wild Megalith, a new book about Neolithic monuments in Wales by Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard with art by Rosie Scribblah
#StandingStoneSunday – IT’S PUBLISHED!
Hunting The Wild Megalith, a new book by Dewi Bowen, which features my artwork from the field.
scribblah 