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There is infinite variety in the different ways of making prints and I find all the processes fascinating. I have been strongly influenced by the landscape of the Beacons and
the traces of former industry and ancient culture found in Wales. Since the onset of the Dylan Thomas Dialogues project, I have derived enormous inspiration from the opportunity to delve deeper into his life, his poetry and prose. The visit to his childhood home in Cwmdonkin Drive was a revelation, in that we discovered so much
about his relationships with his family in the place where he started to write. This experience became part of my etching, Nancy’s Room. In the same way, going to Cwmdonkin Park helped me visualize him as one of the boys who tormented the hunchback. All these relate to a sense of ‘belonging’: this was where Dylan Thomas belonged as a child and remembered as an adult later in Poem in October, written on his birthday.

Lesley obtained an Honours degree in FineArt Printmaking at Cambridge and Cardiff Universities, after winning a bursary to investigate woodblock printing in Japan. She lives and works as a printmaker in Defynnog in the Brecon Beacons, and at the Swansea Print Workshop. www.cefnbrynich.co.uk