The crooked Oak

The crooked Oak
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Love the sunlight catching the tree and water Ray. Wish I could speak Welsh - such a melodic language and probably very hard to learn.

Thanks Adele, yes, Welsh is a very hard language to learn. I've been trying for 10 years. I thought language was a fairly logical thing but I've discovered that it's very abstact !

I love the colours you have used Ray, very nice indeed.

Is the hill carrying the tree, or does the tree grasp the hill? Ray I like the magic atmosphere

Posted by Holger . on Wed 22 Jun 17:15:57
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21/06/2016
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The crooked Oak - Picton Point Pembrokeshire. A famous tree painted by Graham Sutherland and celebrated in poetry by Waldo Williams.

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Ray Burnell

I started to paint again after I moved to West Wales twelve years ago. Originally from Devon, I find a lot of similarities between the coasts, rivers and countryside of the West Country and those of West Wales. As a Welsh language learner I am also interested in the links between landscape,…

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