Just to share with you a little bit about my painting: "Hay Harvest at Rhyd Y Bont".
It's a piece inspired by a walk with Steve last month. We headed along the coast from Pont-Rhyd-Y-Bont or Four Mile Bridge on Ynys Môn / Anglesey. It was a sweltering day, so we just had to go for a beer at the Anchorage after...
Before that, we turned left on the Ynys Cybi side of the bridge (facing as if to cross the bridge), walked along the edge of the beach and eventually the footpath ran across a freshly harvested hayfield in front of a "bwthyn", a traditional Welsh cottage.
The scene looked ageless, despite the vehicles next to the homestead. The grass was so dry in parts it seemed to catch the light like gold and copper, and in other parts it seemed so bleached as to reflect the sky. It was achingly beautiful, as so much of Ynys Môn is to my mind. Do you ever want to cry because something is so beautiful...? Well, that's Ynys Môn to me.
This piece was worked in Sennelier and other oil pastels and set with Sennelier oil pastel fixative, which is great stuff for avoiding some of the practical problems of working in oil pastels... including any residual stickiness.
We artists call pastel pieces "paintings" even though the process is usually more like drawing. Maybe it's because we want works in this medium to be given as much respect as those created with a brush...
The A4 (29.7cm by 21cm) piece is available unframed but including UK postage for £75, or £95 framed if you're close enough for me to deliver. Please just private message me to purchase it.
Or it's available in various types and sizes of prints, and printed to your order on all kinds of lovely things, at:
"Hay Harvest at Rhyd Y Bont" is a piece inspired by a walk along the coast from Pont Rhyd Y Bont or Four Mile Bridge on Anglesey in June 202
Thanks!
Sam aka LymphomaLass xx
