Japanese wood cut in the Rhondda this afternoon

Try Express Imaging in Cardiff- been going 27 years

Colours of St Ives.

Oil on paper, approx 77cm x 56cm. £400.

Reworked for the little book I'm doing with my art and photography in Cornwall

I also missed this, by driving to Aberystwyth and back in one day (from Pontypridd)

read by Julian Sands, and it's made me think of Eglwysilan in the same way Jarman thought of Dungeness- an escape, a sanctuary, and a visionary landscape. I went up there today to get away from the Wales that identifies with Reform, and shut out the noise with birdsong and nature.

I'm so absolutely sick of hearing about bastard Reform in Wales. Camping out on social media and the news with that horrible Dan Thomas (the 'leader'); a man surely incapable of joy or any kind of positive feeling.

I've been listening to 'Modern Nature' by Derek Jarman,

GONE

Ah no way! I sent some photos to Orkney recently

The kind of thing I'd like to get in the post!

Sadly only ever known it as a dwelling

LAST THREE VALLEYS BOOKS! I realised I'm down to the last three books, beside a few I'm keeping back. If you want one please COMMENT HERE; they're £24 signed (the original price) plus P&P

Glad you like them- remind me what they were?!

@jonpountney1.bsky.social 👏

Ah thanks Fiona!

"Sunrise, Inverness Copse" by Paul Nash depicts a haunting landscape of barren trees and craters under a cold, pale sunrise. This work reflects Nash's experiences as a war artist during World War I, capturing the desolation following battle at the Western Front.

Sunrise, Inverness Copse www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/sunrise-inv...

Some install shots of my new @welshnatopera.bsky.social show, in the Wales Millennium Centre. The collages are my biggest ever artwork! Let me know if you go and have a look

Coverage of my @welshnatopera.bsky.social exhibition, in the Western Mail today. The show is now open in the Wales Millennium Centre!

How green are the Valleys now? Jon Pountney’s photographs of the South Wales Valleys are no lament for a lost industrial past, but a vivid record of an area that keeps adapting to and even defying a changing reality, writes Owen Pr...

So chuffed to have my current Valleys show in Clwb Ffoto on the front of the Apollo magazine website! I'm still here, taking photography in Wales to the biggest audiences I can! Thanks to Owen Pritchard for the great writing that accompanies the pictures. apollo-magazine.com/south-wales-...

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'Islington Street at Night with Blossoming Cherry Trees' (2024) by Melissa Scott-Miller
www.chrisbeetles.com/artwork/4782...

Safe to say I'm fascinated by the serious impact of live orchestral music and the talent of the many singers; but also the wealth of creativity and expertise across the many friendly faces in the organisation. I've barely scratched the surface in a year!

A taster of what I've been working on to celebrate the 80th birthday of the @welshnatopera.bsky.social, as well as documenting the (approximately) first year of Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree as General Directors.

A 24 carat Welsh legend from Pontrhydyfen, not called Burton? Yes! Rebecca Evans, soprano, photographed for my project with @welshnatopera.bsky.social in rehearsals for ‘Blaze of Glory’, starting very soon!

Happy spring folks! Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) 1944, Paul Nash

How green are the Valleys now? Jon Pountney’s photographs of the South Wales Valleys are no lament for a lost industrial past, but a vivid record of an area that keeps adapting to and even defying a changing reality, writes Owen Pr...

So chuffed to have my current Valleys show in Clwb Ffoto on the front of the Apollo magazine website! I'm still here, taking photography in Wales to the biggest audiences I can! Thanks to Owen Pritchard for the great writing that accompanies the pictures. apollo-magazine.com/south-wales-...

VALLEYS COLOURS Forgive my piggy little eyes here folks, I was blinded by the brilliance of my Valleys Colours print! Here in an A3 test, but available from my VALLEYS show in @clwbffoto.bsky.social from Friday as an A2 Giclee print for £45!

Limited edition screen prints being printed by the lovely Printhaus the other day- screened white text on a Giclee image.

Available from my VALLEYS exhibition, opening Friday in Clwb Ffoto, Newport!