SNOWDON SHEPHERD - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857930657 ISBN 13 : 9781857930658

Editeur : Pavilion, 1993

Synopsis

This work is the product of a unique assignment and collaboration. The artist Keith Bowen, who lives in north Wales, recently spent a year among the sheepfarming community on the slopes of Snowdon. Their active co-operation allowed him to record their working lives and methods throughout a farming year, against the backcloth of the beautiful but unforgiving landscape of Snowdonia. In over 60 pastels as well as line drawings, Bowen depicts all the landmarks of the sheepfarming year: the selection of the new flock at the October ram sales; the gathering of sheep off the higher slopes of the mountain in November; the mortal winter struggle to combat frozen troughs and drifting snow; the lambing season; summer shearing; the Annual Show and the make or break September auctions, when serious business is leavened by gossip as old friends get together. Keith Bowen's measured commentary, containing a wealth of sheepfarming lore, deals with all the mundane tasks of the shepherd's life: the year-round vigilance against predators, parasites and diseases, the dipping and dousing, the injecting and - nowadays- scanning for radioactivity; the maintainence of miles of walls; the endless searching, checking and and walking.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Keith Bowen was born in North Wales in 1950 and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London in 1980. The artist works in a variety of mediums and is considered one of the foremost pastel painters in the country. He was elected a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1992. Amongst a host of awards he has twice received the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and has exhibited extensively receiving justifiable acclaim. He has written and illustrated a number of books including Among the Amish and Snowdon Shepherd, and his work can be seen in the National Library of Wales. He also designed the Royal Mail Stamps for the 1992 Great Britain Winter Scenes issue. The artist uses sketches, pastels and oil on canvas to encapsulate the Welsh landscape and the gritty weather beaten figures that inhabit it.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a richly-illustrated hard-backed book recording the four seasons of the working year of the shepherds from Snowdonia, North Wales. It provides an illuminating introduction to Welsh sheep-farming techniques, illustrating month by month how the stocks are bred, grazed, sheared and sold. It boasts numerous exquisite colour pastel & charcoal drawings depicting the farms, sheep and shepherds amongst whom the artist lived and worked. It includes a foreword by renowned travel writer, Jan Morris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pavilion
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857930657
• ISBN 13: 9781857930658
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible