Llwybrau Gwyn

Inside the image.

A square cover combines a winter landscape photograph with dark, textured title bands at the top and bottom. The central image shows a snow-covered rural track winding from the lower foreground towards a small cluster of stone and farm buildings near the middle of the scene. The track enters at the bottom right, bends left across the foreground and then turns back towards the buildings, drawing the eye into the picture.

Uneven wooden fence posts line both sides of the route. In the foreground, some are dark and leaning, with wire running between them; further back, pale fences cross the snow-covered fields. Tawny grasses and scrub protrude through the snow, especially along the lower left verge and across the open ground to the right. A low stone building stands just left of centre, with a taller, narrow stone structure beside it. Long, low buildings with pale roofs extend to their right. A flock of sheep forms a small cluster on the snowy rise at the far right. The buildings and animals are modest in scale against the broad landscape.

Beyond them, a dark blue mountain ridge runs across the middle distance. Higher, snow-covered slopes recede beneath a cloudy, muted blue-grey sky. The photograph shifts from crisp fence posts, track and grasses in the foreground to softer, hazier mountains in the distance. Snow is predominantly white with cool blue-grey shadows; the exposed vegetation and stone add ochre, brown and warm grey accents. The light is diffuse, with no strong cast shadows.

The photograph is framed by two broad horizontal bands with a dark brown and black, irregular woodgrain-like appearance. The upper band carries large white serif lettering reading “Tecwyn Ifan” at the left, followed by smaller, widely spaced uppercase lettering, “LLWYBRAU GWYN”, across the right. A thin pale line separates this band from the photograph. The lower band contains a centred line of small, pale lettering: “y casgliad llawn gyda 7 cân newydd”. The lettering sits over the dark bands rather than over the landscape. The overall treatment is photographic, with the bands and their visible grain providing a distinctly graphic frame.