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It takes two bus journeys from home to reach today’s starting point, Crickhowell. The T6 winds its way via Cwm Nedd, Cwm Dulais and the Usk valley to Brecon, and there I swap to the smaller X45 bus that speeds…
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Naivety of an online evangelist
Looking back over a career isn’t something I waste time much on. But sometimes my mind drifts back. And sometimes I wonder at how I spent so much time and effort, all those years ago, in the aid of a…
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Posteri’r Eisteddfod
Un o draddodiadau Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru sy wedi mynd ar goll yw’r arfer o ddylunio a chyhoeddi poster arbennig i hysbysebu’r ŵyl. Yn y degawdau cyntaf o’r ugeinfed ganrif tyfodd yr arfer, ac weithiau gwahoddwyd artistiaid Cymreig o fri i…
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A new Thrasymachus
What is justice? For the current President of the United States of America, the answer to that question is directly and exclusively linked to another – who holds power over others? In his White House dialogue with Volodymir Zelinskyy on…
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Kenneth Rowntree paints Wales
In 1940 the government commissioned around sixty artists to record local scenes all over Britain, in order to capture a visual record of the country’s buildings and landscapes before they were transformed by the effects and aftereffects of war. The…
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In praise of Maesteg
The last deep coal mine in the Llynfi valley, St John’s Colliery, just east of Maesteg, closed in 1985, at the end of Margaret Thatcher’s war against the miners. At its peak it employed nearly 1,500 men. There’s been no…
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Nelan a Bo
Nelan a Bo yw trydedd nofel Angharad Price. Ynddi mae’n mynd nôl i’w chartref gyntaf, Rhos Chwilog, ar bwys pentref Bethel yn Arfon. Llecyn bach iawn – rhaid troi at y map manylaf er mwyn rhoi’ch bys arno – ond,…
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Two versions of Ceridwen
Christopher Williams is little known today outside his home town of Maesteg, but in his heyday – he was born in 1873 and died in 1934 – he was regarded as the outstanding painter of Wales. He earned his living…
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‘Deud llai’: troli Tesco ac un esgid damp
deud llai (Barddas, 2024) yw’r trydydd casgliad o gerddi i’w gyhoeddi gan Dafydd John Pritchard. Roedd yr ail, Lôn fain (2013), dipyn yn llai fel llyfr corfforol na’r cyntaf, Dim ond deud (2006), ac mae’r gyfrol newydd yn llai byth. …
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‘No Welsh art’
Peter Lord’s exhibition ‘Dim Celf Cymreig / No Welsh Art’ fills the whole of the largest exhibition space in Wales, the Gregynog Gallery in the National Library. It needs such a big space because Peter’s personal gallery, built up over…