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| Eric Ravilious, Waterwheel, 1938 (Brecknock Museum) |
Early in 1938 Eric Ravilious spent several weeks at the Welsh hamlet of Capel-y-Ffin, previously home to artists Eric Gill and David Jones. You can read all about his experiences in 'Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist', but I thought I would post a few pictures of the place. You have to imagine the constant sound of rushing water and the sense of being somewhere close to the edge of the world...
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| Possibly painted here... |
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| More haybales than houses... Y-Twmpa (Lord Hereford's Knob) in the background |
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| Rav stayed here - there wasn't much competition |
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| St Marys Church, the approach from Hay-on-Wye |
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Eric Ravilious, Wet Afternoon, 1938 (private collection)
He wasn't quite so lucky with the weather. |
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| St Mary's Church |
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| The gravestones in the churchyard seem to have been hand-picked... |
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| Close-up of stone above |
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| Sometimes the lichen makes the lettering clearer |
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| The monastery, home in the 1920s to the Gill clan, including David Jones |
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Baptist Chapel, with gravestones and Y-Twmpa...
Capel seems to have more ecclesiastical buildings than houses, hence its name I suppose |
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| It's go go go in Capel-y-Ffin |
'Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist' is published by The Mainstone Press.
