Ogmore Castle, Glamorganshire
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Ogmore Castle, Glamorganshire is a 1940 watercolor by H. E. Du Plessis, depicting Ruins, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a crumbling stone castle perched on a hillside. The walls are uneven, with some parts missing, and the whole scene looks weathered. Below, a river winds through green fields, and trees dot the landscape in soft watercolor strokes. The artist used loose, sketchy lines to suggest texture rather than detail. The castle’s ruins stand out against the lighter background, almost like a silhouette. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this watercolor in person.
The painting depicts the east face of the west wall of the keep at Ogmore Castle, a twelfth-century structure located in Glamorganshire. Produced in 1940 as part of the "Recording Britain" project, the work was created to document aspects of the British landscape during the Second World War. The scheme, initiated by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, employed artists to record places and buildings perceived as part of national identity. This watercolour is one of over 1,500 works produced by 97 artists under the project.
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A South Wales watercolor artist active around 1940, H. E. Du Plessis painted the everyday buildings and lanes of Glamorganshire. Brush in hand, he recorded places like the low stone Jesus Hospital in Bray and the…
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