The next Marloes Village Hall talk will be about the birds of our Peninsula. Wanting the poster to be striking but not too fussy, I searched the web for a drawing of a Peregrine Falcon – one of our most impressive local birds, along with gannets and ravens.
This picture below stood out straight away; what amazed me when I studied it more carefully was that the background view is of Towers Point, a headland on the Saint Bride’s Bay coast about a mile from my house.
Amazed me even more, on discovering that this is the work of Paschalis Dougalis, a Greek artist living in Munich! Such an odd combination of circumstances, it makes me wonder if my server incorporates an Infinite Improbability Drive.
Anyway, I am very grateful to Mr Dougalis for his permission to incorporate the illustration in our poster; I do recommend you to visit his website and see how very good his work is for yourselves. Here’s the link…