About - Eryri Drawings - 2026

Context

The Eryri drawings were made in the enigmatic area of Wales called Eryri, a landscape where stone, weather, water and light continually reshape the ground and the experience of moving through it. While some drawings are grounded in specific places others are not. All respond to the shifting character of the mountains, their ridges, hollows, sudden changes of weather and the constant sense that the land is active rather than still.

Lines branch, divide and return, suggesting paths through stone, rain cutting through slopes, wind moving across ridges, or the hidden structures that lie beneath the surface of the land. Forms gather and disperse across the page in ways that echo the terrain, where stability and movement exist side by side.

Rooted in the physical presence of Eryri, the drawings also carry the unease of the times they are drawn in. Mountains often feel watchful and unresolved, their slopes holding silence, tension and sudden movement. This atmosphere finds its way into the work, where marks hesitate, shift direction or press against one another without fully settling.

What emerges is not a depiction of the landscape but a conversation with it. The drawings hold fragments of ridge, wind, water and shadow, allowing the character of this special landscape to surface through line, pressure and space.

Linda Sgoluppi Art