Organ Cadeirlan Aberhonddu / The Organ Of Brecon Cathedral

Inside the image.

The square cover combines a sweeping rural landscape with a framed portrait. The landscape fills the background: broad, curved fields run across the lower two-thirds, their alternating bands of vivid green and dark brown-black following the contours of the land. Near the bottom, two slender trees stand close together in a green field. A dark hedgerow or wooded strip crosses the middle distance, with a small rounded tree or bush isolated on the left. Beyond it, low hills recede beneath a pale yellow-green sky streaked with darker clouds. The scene has a slightly soft, painterly appearance, with strong tonal contrasts between the luminous fields and the shadowed bands.

A tall rectangular portrait sits in the upper-right quadrant, inset from the top and right edges and outlined by a fine ochre-gold border. It shows a smiling woman from the shoulders up against a dark brown background. Her short, voluminous, curly auburn-brown hair frames her face; she wears a dark patterned top. The portrait has a warm reddish-brown cast and is cropped at the shoulders. Its straight edges and more intimate scale distinguish it from the open landscape behind it.

Large cream-coloured lettering reading “JANE WATTS” spans the left side, across the dark middle-distance and the fields below. The name is set in tall, decorative serif capitals, with the initial J especially prominent. Beneath it, two smaller lines of cream italic lettering read “Organ Cadeirlan Aberhonddu” and “The Organ of Brecon Cathedral, Wales”. The text follows the left side of the composition, leaving the portrait unobstructed. Overall, the cover is a composite of landscape imagery, portrait photography and overlaid type, with a warm, subdued palette of olive green, gold, brown and cream.