Bronze Age Gold from Wales

In this painting, titled 'St Ishmaels' after a Pembrokeshire hamlet, Sutherland brings together the walled forest he found there with an eroded tree from Pictonbeach, some 15 miles away. He explained that in this constructed scene "the time of day is late afternoon on a dull day, with the sun breaking through between the interstices of the branches". The large circle may suggest a camera lens. The idea of looking is repeated by the suggestion of an eye, surveying the scene from amongst the twisted tree forms.

Works bequeathed by the artist to the first Graham Sutherland Gallery at Picton Castle, 1976