Mossy Woodland in February
Today Noelle Griffiths and I began our 2020 seasonal paintings in the mixed woodland at Ceunant Llennyrch below Trawsfyfnydd Lake in Snowdonia. For the past several years, each season, we get together to paint and draw in the landscapes near Noelle's home in the mountains of Snowdonia, and my home on the coast of Llyn. Noelle is a painter and maker of Artists' Books, and we have over the past ten years or more collaborated to make limited edition handmade books, as well as our Season Paintings. Currently we are making an edition of five unique folios of 32 microscope and in situ paintings of 8 common mosses and liverworts of this woodland, two in each season with 8 relief prints, 8 paintings of sounds, and digital text. Details on Noelles website www.noellegriffiths-art.co.uk As often seems to happen in this particular woodland, it rained during the day and we had to try to prevent all the paint being washed off our boards. I use gouache and its very vulnerable t