Welsh Hill Farm Painting
by Edward McNaught-Davis
Title
Welsh Hill Farm Painting
Artist
Edward McNaught-Davis
Medium
Mixed Media - Pen And Ink With Crayon On Card.
Description
My Welsh Hill Farm painting is a view from of my previous home’s front garden with this being Cwm Mynach. I saw this view every day for many years. It looked good always and irrespective of the season and weather. It shows my then neighbours’ hilltop working agriculture farm and its surrounding fields between the B4337 at Cribyn and the A475 at Lampeter in Ceredigion.
The farm in the painting is called Caerfoel. This farming business grows potatoes in sufficient quantity to sell to wholesale distributors and it grazes sheep mainly.
The picture’s focal point is the farmhouse along with its supporting outbuildings, barns and sheds.
With the exception of some barns, all the buildings are built from local stone including the small farmhouse. This collection of buildings are about three quarters of the way up a steep hill. At the top of hill is an iron age fort and which is managed also by the farmer.
I decided to use pen and ink with crayon to pick out all the farm building shapes so that you, the viewer, are able to see them clearly. The trees, bushes and hedging were hand drawn with pen and ink too and then coloured with crayon.
Other points of interest were added such as the fencing between a barn and an outbuilding plus bits of discarded machinery lying between barns.
The two principal brown looking fields had recently been prepared for growing potatoes. The hedging intersecting these two fields is mostly managed Hawthorn. It does not look to be much of a barrier now but come the Summer it will be virtually impenetrable by any livestock such as sheep.
The tree tops in the foreground and at the bottom of the illustrated picture act as a boundary between the two farms of Caerfoel and Cwm Mynach. These trees form part of a small copse that has a small stream running through it. I added them to the picture to show the steepness of terrain before and after them.
The picture was created in an early April with the trees just starting to show their leaves. The views from the farmhouse are spectacular and you can see far and wide on a good clear day.
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February 25th, 2012
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