40 x 30cm
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Painting of the Four Terraces, Senghenedd

The painting is of the four terraces of houses in Senghenedd ispart of the series "Valley Lines: Bargoed to the Bay".

The paintings explore the historical, economic and cultural connections - both physical and emotional - between people and places in the South Wales Valleys and Cardiff.

The paintings invite the viewer to refect on Cardiff and the Valleys' move from a (physically tough) industrial and maritime economy, based on the mining, transport and export of coal, to an e-commerce, media and tourism based economy of entertainment and leisure opportunities.

The valley hillside is still scarred from mining but the valley is once more becoming green.

This stylised, but other-wise "straight", painting is a view of Senghenedd in the Rhymney Valley. No "time-shifting" or change of perspective but it is still painted - as a child would paint - with poster paint (gouache) and crayon.

It is a painting about friendship (we are still friends) but also about loss as my friend - like so many before and since - had to move away from his beloved valley in South Wales. It is hoped that he and his wife will one day come home again to Wales. A welcome is being kept on the hillside and in the vale.