Photo prompt round-up: Painted #writephoto

The vision of Man

In harmony with Nature

Dream or ambition

Painted by a hopeful heart

Suspended between two worlds

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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in the Japanese Garden, hidden in the Gwyllt, the ‘Wildwood’ at Portmeirion, Wales, during one of our summer workshop weekends a few years ago.

Portmeirion is the strange and colourful village created by the architect and conservationist, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. Tucked away on the Welsh coast, at first glance it resembles a picture-postcard Italian village, and yet all is not what it seems… and many things are far more than they seem.

Williams-Ellis sought to bring humankind and Nature together, illustrating with his architecture the ideal and harmonious relationship that should exist between us. Many of the buildings and statuary are recycled from other, far-flung places…and, if you get there before the crowds and have the place to yourself…