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‘Under Milk Wood: Homage to Dylan’ (about 1965) by Ray Howard-Jones, Carmarthenshire County Museum, Wales

Images of the fictional village of Llareggub (read it backwards) are usually only ever summoned up in the mind, when hearing a performance or recording of Dylan Thomas's play for voices, 'Under Milk Wood'.

This imagined view of Laugharne contains references to the play, as well as a depiction of the poet's gravestone in Laugharne. Ray Howard-Jones is better known for their seascapes and wildlife paintings of the island of Skomer and the Pembrokeshire coast, but this evocation of a patchwork sort of a place is really quite fitting for the play.

Image: Art UK
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/under-milk-wood-homage-to-dylan-177298