Waterfall At Clyne Gardens 2025

The print presents Clyne Gardens’ waterfall as a disciplined study in flat colour and shape. Pale water drops through stepped ledges of umber rock in a measured rhythm. Foliage appears in quiet blocks—sage, blush, dusty rose—while distant trees dissolve into a mist of spare silhouettes. The composition, vertical format, and use of unmodulated planes recall the Shin-hanga revival of Ukiyo-e landscape printing, where artists such as Kawase Hasui pursued atmosphere through pared-back geometry and subtle hue.

That Japanese lens is turned on a distinctly Welsh scene. Clyne Gardens, once the Vivian family’s private estate, was shaped in the late-19th and early-20th centuries as a sequence of botanical set pieces, with this engineered cascade feeding a stream that winds to Blackpill in Swansea Bay​. The print’s calm logic of shape and tone aligns it with early-twentieth-century Anglo-Japanese printmaking, yet it avoids nostalgia by keeping the marks spare and factual. The result is an image that feels both local and outward-looking, compressing landscape, craft, and cultural exchange into a concise, intelligent harmony.