Tag: esther grainger
Welsh paintings: gwallter’s top 10
Paintings, not painters, you’ll notice. And the artists are all safely dead (this avoids treading on the toes of the living). Third, I wouldn’t claim that these are the best ten paintings. They’re just works that have given me special pleasure and contemplation. Many aren’t very well known. But see what you think about my […]
Esther Grainger
We’re in Merthyr Tydfil to spend an afternoon in Cyfarthfa Castle and its estate, above the town to the north-east. The house was built as a home by the Crawshay family, owners of one of the town’s great ironworks in the nineteenth century. ‘Castle’ is the right word for it. Stone turreted and battlemented, it […]