Earth Meadow Prints

EARTH MEADOW presents a pictorial diary of a forgotten time on the farm and by the sea. This collection, painted retrospectively from memory by artist Eironwy Llewellyn whilst in her seventies.
The jaunty, naive style is intended to convey her early life as remembered ‘through the eyes of a child’, with the various scenes charmingly recalling life as it was lived during this period, 1930-44. Each painting is accompanied by commentary by the artist on its context and subjects, creating a uniquely personal and insightful record of the bygone traditions and community activity of rural Wales.

Author & Illustrator:
Eironwy Llewellyn, born in 1930 in Aberystwyth, Wales, was a free spirit and would love seeing her work shared with the world. As an artist, she trained at Swansea College of Art,1946-1951, receiving a National Diploma in Design in Modelling & Sculpture and Art Teacher Diploma, as well as being an Associate Member of the British Association of Art Therapists.
Artist and writer Sara Llewellyn has compiled the artwork and writings created by her mother to preserve and share them with the world.

Introduction to the book Earth Meadow by the author:

"It’s an odd thing, discovering the first fourteen years of your mother’s life in full colour and with so much written detail when she’s not there anymore! So began my own Herculean task: to curate, collate, capture, compile and edit the prolific, bursting-at-the-seams work of Eironwy.
Painted retrospectively from memory whilst in her seventies, this collection presents a pictorial diary of a forgotten time from 1930-1944 of a Welsh childhood lived on the farm and by the sea.
I can sense in them her intense relief at dropping
the pretence of her adult life – trying to be a good middle-class wife, mother, teacher, friend, enduring the boredom of conformity, the suffocation of her wild, free spirit.
A trained, highly skilled sculptor, here she was coming to the last stages of her life and giving two of her worn-out fingers, in all their workish glory, to the ‘establishment’ and deliberately painting in a contrived naïve style. Her dazzling chosen colour palettes and pelted brushstrokes are grounded in emphatic emotion pouring out of her very being – who she really was, at last revealed!
Producing this book has been heady stuff for me, the messenger of that surprising Welsh Mam of...