Own work: The Sardis Independent Chapel

     Another new work for you.  The Sardis Independent Chapel, Ystradgynlais, Breconshire. Ystradgynlais, which is visually nearly all Victorian and later, is oddly enough situated south of the Brecon Beacons towards the head of the Tawe valley. So sort of industrial South Wales, really. Not the sort of place one would automatically associate with deeply rural Breconshire. The chapel, perhaps the grandest in the town, dates from the 1860s and is a far more dominant presence in the streetscape than the retiring parish church. As you can see from the collage it is a rather odd building with a number of mannerisms to the classical façade: the bases and capitals of the eight Doric pilasters, (which are missing both their pads, or orli, and abaci), are continuous between adjoining pilasters, and the entablature is missing most of its cornice.

     It is now closed. Anyway, this is a mixed-media collage roughly 30 x 37cms on watercolour board.