Many people who have begun their own journeys in the encaustic art medium might believe that the simple iron made landscapes are the shape they are just because of the rounded shape of the iron’s base-plate. But the thing that actually gave me the confidence and visual ‘memory’ to begin my own voyage into landscape with an iron was this hill in west Wales, known as Foel Drygarn. It is an ancient Iron Age Hill fort located at the eastern end of the Preseli hills. The Preseli range is a national park and has lovely bleak open spaces and lots of blue stones, even accepted as the quarry for the 29 inner stones of the world famous Stone Henge. In this blog look at the basics of iron landscape I have speeded myself up to make it all a bit shorter. But the important information is still in there. That’s the beauty of video !! There are a couple more video shots almost at the end, of other similar hill shapes in the Preseli hills close to where I live.
Hope you enjoy it …
