Artist to help put Eisteddfod on map.AN artist has teamed up with his former headmaster to create a print for this year's National Eisteddfod eisteddfod (īstĕth`vəd, –vôd) [Welsh,=session], Welsh competitive festival. Contests traditionally are held in all the arts and crafts, with special emphasis on music and poetry. at Bala. Iwan Bryn Williams has written an englyn about the Five Parishes of Penllyn and his former pupil Iwan Bala has incorporated the poem in a map of the area. Though the artist left the town in his late teens, such is the hold of his hometown on him, he adopted the name Bala. Fittingly, Iwan Bala won the Gold Medal for Fine Art when the festival last visited the town in 1997. All profits from the sale of the prints will go towards this year's Fine Art award. Fascinated by cartography cartography: see map. cartography or mapmaking Art and science of representing a geographic area graphically, usually by means of a map or chart. Political, cultural, or other nongeographic features may be superimposed. , Mr Bala said: "Maps have been of great interest to me since I can remember, especially the half map, half landscape features of mediaeval me·di·ae·val adj. Variant of medieval. mediaeval Adjective same as medieval Adj. 1. cartography. "And stories and verse, of course, are integral to the Welsh landscape." The limited edition print of Pum Plwy Penllyn is for sale for pounds 75 unframed. Further details on 01678 520871.. |
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