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Marloes Village Hall talks

In the previous entry I mentioned posters: here is the latest Marloes Village Hall talk poster. You might be interested in coming along!

Hello, World!

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Hello, World! July 21^st 2025

This is the board I have made for my front gate: quite a few people pass my house, locals as well as visitors, so it is worth some effort to publicise this website. As with designing posters, I prefer a Keep It Simple approach: something bold to attract the eye, plus just the basic message.
I don’t only use reclaimed wood, mainly from the beach, for painting on and for framing pictures: I fashioned this sign from an extruded plastic plank which washed in. Fingers crossed, it will cope with Marloes weather for a good long while!

Crystal Girl

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Crystal Girl June 23^rd 2025
There has been a recent influx of Crystal Jellyfish; rather like Comb Jellies, these seem too insubstantial to survive, at first sight. Colourless, transparent except for fine white radial lines – but apparently spectacular in ultraviolet light! This is not my original drawing, which was in pencil, but a photo manipulation of its negative image, simulating an early technique which predated the plate camera: the Cyanotype.
Original sketch pencil on white paper June 2025
Size A4 (Cropped)

Clear As Gin

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Clear As Gin June 22^nd 2025
The last few months have been unusually sunny and dry: I have enjoyed many swims in clear sparkling water. Recently, with the sea warming, I have been duck diving with a mask on: wonderful to study the surface from beneath and to see, looking sideways, how the colours deepen with greater distance – almost Caribbean. This picture, from the imagination of course, tries to convey that special feeling when the sea is clear is gin – of being suspended in nothing, not spacewalking in a cumbersome suit but freely floating above a seabed far below.

Oil on panel June 2025
12” x 7¾”

Tim Edey

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Tim Edey June 18^th 2025
A highly accomplished solo musician. This is a sketch of him performing at the very small and delightfully quirky “snug” at the Bluestone Brewery, which is well hidden away at the top of the Gwaun Valley. I am featuring this sketch because Tim will soon be performing in Pembrokeshire, this time at Burnett’s Hill, an ex coal miners’ chapel near Lawrenny, which has wonderful acoustics and a great atmosphere – as an historic building, and as a meeting place for like-minded music enthusiasts. Sold out, alas!
Pencil February 2020
Size A4

First Night

First Night June 15^th 2025
From the imagination: a youngster’s first night swim – or, perhaps more significantly, their first solo night swim. With such perfect conditions, I hope you agree that they simply had to go! Still clear air, and a calm sea which we hope is gin clear, too; no phosphorescence, but maybe there will be next time.
A different technique to my usual, for this picture: using a sharp point to scrape through the deep blue top paint layer and find the pure white beneath.
Acrylic on panel June 2025
8” x 16”

Sea-Leap

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Sea-Leap June 15^th 2025
As soon as this girl was on the sand yesterday, she was literally jumping for joy; in her costume, she rushed about the surf line squeaking and laughing with delight, never still. I was lucky to capture something of her joy, I hope, when for a while she was jumping and prancing with the breaking waves. When shown this sketch, she was delighted; her mother explained, “She wants to be a mermaid, when she’s older”.
Charcoal, pencil, coloured pencil on paper
Size A4

Evening Primroses

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Evening Primrose
June 14^th 2025
The bank opposite my house is well drained and sunny. Since I and my neighbour have been keeping the coarsest grasses and the Alexanders under control, and scattering the seed heads of foxgloves and other wild flowers, it has rewarded us with copious flowers, some seasons; whilst this painting dates from July 2022, there is already a good evening primrose showing this year. The two hills are some way off, beyond St Davids: Carn Llidi (to the left) and Carn-Ffald.
Is that purple flower tufted vetch? I think so.

Oil on panel

Musselwick

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Musselwick
How one often sees swimmers at this beach, in summer – silhouetted against the sun-sparkled sea. While you see a figure, I did not depict one. This is a panel of marine plywood cut from a piece of wrecked boat found on Marloes Sands; the “girl” is an area of varnished veneer, nothing more. But your eyes and brain have no doubt that she is there! Used as an illustration in my book of poetry and songs, “To Marloes With Love”.

Oil on panel Painted May 2015
7 1/2″ x 10 1/8″

Wild orchids

I thought I would feature these as general inspiration regarding what Nature is capable of. These orchids are flowering right now in a local meadow which used to be a monoculture of coarse modern grass; Southern Marsh Orchids have been seen there for many years, but never before in 25 years have Early Purples appeared.