“Into the Woods”

For Sale: “Into the Woods”

Pencil, pastel, and drybrush

2026 ($200. If interested in purchase, please email dterrydraw@aol.com or PM)

This is my first picture of this New Year….another vaguely spooky, Welsh landscape (and thanks to my friends at Castell Gwydir).

The Twyleth Teg (google them) figure prominently in Welsh folklore….also in Alice Thomas Ellis’s wry, chilling, quite funny, unavoidably ominous, short novel “Fairy Tale”. The following is the first sentence of the novel (in which the Twyleth Teg figure largely and are definitely NOT the cute, woodland “faeries” that sentimental Americans imagine):

“The eyes of the watchers were cold and flat and incurious and the watchers were still. Whenever they moved — be it ever so slightly — there was a brief darkness, a shadow behind the leaves, a hint of something that humanity might call loss, equate with pain. But the watchers knew nothing of that, being indifferent to such matters.”