Tryweryn: Claudia Williams

Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan

A hardback book with colour photos depicting the artist, Claudia Williams's artistic response to the drowning of Tryweryn. This lovely book includes bilingual captions and a bilingual introduction by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and also includes the MP Elfyn Llwyd's response to Claudia's work.

ISBN: 9781847719249

Price: £14.95

Department: Artists, Art, Tryweryn

Format: Hardback

Language: Bilingual

No. of pages: 72

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Reviews

Especially emotive are the depictions of simple, every day events happening for the last time – the last day for the children in the village school, the sheepdog trials, and milking the cows on one of the little farmsteads. Outstandingly poignant is the pained expression on the face of the mother who is leaving her home for ever and desperately concerned for her family's future (p.62), and the picture of the local children watching the village being demolished in 1965 (pp.64-65). A most presentable and significant publication overall. - J. Graham Jones, Gwales

Arbennig o deimladwy yw'r portreadau o arferion syml bob dydd yn digwydd am y tro olaf – diwrnod olaf y plant yn ysgol y pentref, y treialon cŵn defaid, a godro'r da ar un o'r ffermydd bach. Tu hwnt o ingol yw'r golwg ofnus ar wyneb y fam sy'n gadael ei chartref am byth ac yn poeni'n arw am ddyfodol ei theulu (tud.62), a'r llun o'r plant lleol yn gwylio'r broses o ddymchwel y pentref ym 1965 (tt.64-65). Cyhoeddiad cymen ac arwyddocaol dros ben. - J. Graham Jones, Gwales

Blurb

The drowning of the Tryweryn valley near Bala by Liverpool Corporation in the mid-1960s was a traumatic episode in the history of modern Wales and followed an eigh-year effort to prevent the destruction of homes. It left a deep scar not only on the families so cruelly uprooted but also on the wider Welsh-speaking community.

In this series of paintings, Claudia Williams movingly explores her own personal response to the tragic, forcible destruction of this cultured community.

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