Pembrey's own 'war zone' inspires artist Osi Rhys Osmond
Osi Rhys Osmond paints the wonders of life redeeming "man's madness" in the practice war zone on the end of Cefn Sidan Beach.
His artistic interpretation contrasting military might versus nature’s beauty is captured in the latest ‘Back Wall’ series of Welsh artists at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen, a show running until August 17.
Carmarthenshire coastal landscape artist Mr Osmond watches the skilled aerobatics of Top Gun pilots practising their warfare alongside the fastest feathered winged predator in the bird world – the peregrine falcon, seeking out its next meal.
He has captured the scenes on location overlooking RAF Pembrey’s bombing ranges and the proofing and testing Ministry of Defence establishment at Pendine.
His sets up his easel on the Llansteffan coastal peninsular looking seaward east towards Cefn Sidan, Pembrey, and across to Gower; then south over Pendine to Lundy and Caldy Island, and west towards Laugharne.
He says: “I follow the sun in its progress across the sky and paint as it descends, into the sea in the winter months and beyond the land as the year progresses.
“Sitting quietly in the same place I see many birds and animals. The peregrine falcon holds a particular allure for me and I often see and hear military activity, the manoeuvres of planes and helicopters bombing and shelling the target area on the ranges on the east marsh end of Cefn Sidan.
“Witnessing this I sense the beauty of nature, land and sea compromised by these violent, aggressive intrusions. Momentarily, the Earth loses its virtue to man’s madness but nature and the sun redeem and these watercolours of the sunset are my way of holding on to the beauty of the Earth and to the wonder of life itself.”
He has captured the scenes on location overlooking RAF Pembrey’s bombing ranges and the proofing and testing Ministry of Defence establishment at Pendine.
His sets up his easel on the Llansteffan coastal peninsular looking seaward east towards Cefn Sidan, Pembrey, and across to Gower; then south over Pendine to Lundy and Caldy Island, and west towards Laugharne.
He says: “I follow the sun in its progress across the sky and paint as it descends, into the sea in the winter months and beyond the land as the year progresses.
“Sitting quietly in the same place I see many birds and animals. The peregrine falcon holds a particular allure for me and I often see and hear military activity, the manoeuvres of planes and helicopters bombing and shelling the target area on the ranges on the east marsh end of Cefn Sidan.
“Witnessing this I sense the beauty of nature, land and sea compromised by these violent, aggressive intrusions. Momentarily, the Earth loses its virtue to man’s madness but nature and the sun redeem and these watercolours of the sunset are my way of holding on to the beauty of the Earth and to the wonder of life itself.”
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