Keith Bowen SNOWDON SHEPHERD Signed Limited Edition
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Keith Bowen SNOWDON SHEPHERD Signed Limited Edition
Limited edition, first print hardback of SNOWDON SHEPHERD (Four Seasons on the Hill Farms of North Wales) by Keith Bowen and published by Pavilion Books Limited, London in 1991. Signed by Bowen on the copyright page. Full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Number 474 of 2,000 printed copies. Foreword by Jan Morris. Includes a set of 5 Royal Mail stamps depicting winter scenes designed by Bowen.The book is in very good condition (grey cloth boards with gold lettering to spine) with only minor wear to the dust jacket, which is price clipped (light rubbing to edges/bumping to a couple of corners). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Snowdon Shepherd is the outcome of a year spent by artist Keith Bowen among the sheep-farming community on the slopes of Snowdon. Their active co-operation allowed him to record the shepherds' working lives and methods throughout a farming year, against the backcloth of the beautiful but unforgiving landscape of Snowdonia.
In over sixty pastels of cunsummate skill and harmonious colouring, as well as line drawings bristling with spontaneity, Bowen depicts all the landmarks of the sheepfarming year: the selection of the new flock at the October ram sales; the gathering of sheep off the higher slopes of the mountain in November; the mortal winter struggle to combat frozen troughs and drifting snow; the lambing season; summer shearing; the Annual Show and the make-or-break September auctions.
Keith Bowen's measured commentary, containing a wealth of sheepfarming lore, deals with all the mundane tasks of the shepherd's life. The narrative is spare and factual, for description would be redundant in the presence of Bowen's atmospheric images.
96 pages, profusely illustrated
ISBN: 1 85145 425 X
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