Today’s weather forecast was terrible: torrential rain and a yellow warning for thunderstorms, so I thought I would nip out in advance of the bad weather and have another look at the horizon around Bwlch y Ddeufaen. As it happens I need not have worried: I’m safely back home without more than a few drops of rain and a distant rumble of thunder. I’m watching the storms brew up on https://www.lightningmaps.org/# and feeling pretty smug.
Spring comes late at this elevation and the grass is still brown on the hillsides. The gorse is just greening up at the tips – lower down the valley it’s in flower in gorgeous gamboge yellow. The new shoots of the bilberries are a lurid lime green and the white seed heads of the cotton grass are everywhere. There is plenty of colour if you look for it.
So of course I made some large drawings in black and white, revisiting the idea of a 360degree view of the horizon. I’m hoping that concentrating on the horizon for the time being will clear the way towards the larger pieces needed for the exhibition.
