Tag: Cornelius Varley
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John Varley paints Cader Idris
The first thing you do, as soon as your book is published, is wonder what you’ve missed out. (That’s not quite true; the first thing is start looking for possible typos that have escaped the editing eye.) In the case of Cader Idris and the artists (and its twin, Cader Idris a’r artistiaid), I began…
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Cornelius Varley again
I’ve been revisiting the miraculous drawings made by Cornelius Varley when he spent time in Dolgellau in the summer of 1803. The end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century was an age of wonder for watercolour painting in Britain, but I think it’s a shame that Varley’s name isn’t celebrated as widely…
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Cornelius Varley in Wales
Among the many artists who came to draw and paint in Wales around the turn of the eighteenth century, Cornelius Varley is yet to receive just attention. The pictures he made in Wales are fresh, delicate and strong, the work of a young man with great visual intelligence who reacted with instinctive wonder and clarity…