Pennard Castle, Gower, Glamorganshire
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Pennard Castle, Gower, Glamorganshire is a 1940 watercolor by Mona Moore, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet hillside with a small stone castle on top. The land is dry and patchy, with sparse bushes and leafless trees. A winding stream cuts through the valley below, and the sky is pale and soft. The artist used light washes of color to show the texture of the rocks and grass. The castle looks old and simple, almost hidden by the landscape. Next, look up Moore, Mona to see more of her work.
A watercolour by Mona Moore from 1940 depicts Pennard Castle in Gower, Glamorganshire, framed almost as a silhouette atop a distant hill. Leafless trees and dense undergrowth occupy the sloping foreground, while the castle’s ruins stand against a muted sky. The work was created as part of the *Recording Britain* project, a wartime initiative that employed artists to document Britain’s landscape and heritage between 1940 and 1943. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme aimed to preserve scenes perceived as vulnerable to wartime damage or modern change.
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Mona Moore painted quiet watercolours of Welsh villages and coastline in the 1940s.
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