Bettws-y-Edewain Church Tower, Montgomeryshire
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Bettws-y-Edewain Church Tower, Montgomeryshire is a 1941 watercolor by Mildred E. Eldridge, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting depicts a church tower, with a smaller building in front of it. The tower is made of stone and has a pointed roof with a cross on top. The smaller building has a sloping roof and is surrounded by tall grass. The painting is done in muted colours, with shades of brown and grey dominating the scene. The sky above is cloudy, adding to the sombre mood of the painting. The artist's use of watercolour creates a sense of softness and subtlety, drawing the viewer's eye to the intricate details of the church tower and its surroundings. To learn more about the artist's work, look up Eldridge, Mildred E.
This watercolour by Mildred E. Eldridge depicts the Church of St. Beuno in Bettws Cedewain, Montgomeryshire, focusing on the tower with swallows flying around the belfry. The foreground includes overgrown gravestones amid long grass, capturing a quiet, rural scene. The work was part of the 'Recording Britain' project, a wartime initiative to document British landscapes and buildings threatened by change or war damage. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme employed artists to record topographical views across England, Wales, and Scotland.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Mildred E. Eldridge painted the hills and barns of 1940s Wales in watercolours. She left us five small scenes of rural life, each titled by the place it shows: a stone barn in Llanrhaeadr, peat cutters near Cefn Coch,…
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