Cardiff-born Dan Llywelyn Hall lives and works in London. Since graduating from the University of Westminster and winning a national art competition he has exhibited extensively, including at the Saatchi Gallery, Frieze Art Fair and the BP Portrait Award exhibition, and regularly in his native Wales. His subject matter is the landscape and man’s impact upon it, characteristically using strong colour, vigorous brushwork, spattering and texture. This painting depicts the mangled and scattered remnants of a Canberra bomber that crashed on the slopes of Carnedd Llewelyn in 1957, killing the two crew members. Nature is seen as a vehicle for presenting traces of the past and interpreting it in contemporary terms. There are also discernible associations with the work and subject matter of British neo-Romantic artists of the mid-twentieth century, such as Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash and John Piper.