Maureen Benson
Pentre Berw
From Gaerwen, take the B4419, signposted to Newborough. After 0.5 miles, turn right down a track, go under a railway bridge and Plas Berw is the first house facing you.
My oil paintings are usually inspired by nature, sometimes via the medium of photography. This series of paintings tends to zoom in on the subject, creating an abstract quality.
Open throughout the year by prior appointment.
For many years I have been exploring faces carved on C18th slate headstones – I have a collection of over 100 photos. Time obscures them with lichen and soil, they crumble and split, but enough remain to stare back through the centuries and fascinate me – my work uses layers, pasted on or pulled off; my canvasses record history embedded in the earth, as if covering or uncovering the past.