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A hazy purple scene with a pale face-like form, dark tree-like shapes and a reddish foreground, framed by a dark border and lettering.

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Sain (Recordiau) Cyf. · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Ac Adre' Mor Bell Ag Erioed

Dafydd Dafis

Album artwork for Dafydd Dafis, provided through the SAIN Records collection on Wikimedia Commons.

A CLOSER LOOK / 01

Inside the image.

The square cover has a dark, mottled outer border in charcoal, brown and deep burgundy. A fine pale line runs across near the top, and a larger rectangular picture fills most of the left and central area, ending above the lower edge. A narrow dark strip on the right carries vertical lettering. The picture itself is hazy and layered, with a predominantly plum-purple sky or background crossed by diagonal, cloudlike streaks. Near the upper left of centre is a pale, partially obscured face-like shape, turned towards the viewer; its features are indistinct. Dark green-black forms, suggestive of a line of trees or dense foliage, sit below it. Across the bottom of the picture is a band of reddish brown and black shapes. These are too blurred to identify confidently, though a few light patches and narrow repeated marks stand out. A pale outline frames the picture, most clearly along its top and bottom edges.

Small white lowercase lettering reading “dafydd dafis” sits near the top of the picture, slightly right of centre. The letters have a traditional serif appearance and stand out against the purple ground. In the right-hand strip, orange lowercase serif lettering runs vertically, reading upwards from the bottom: “ac adre mor bell ag erioed”. The cover has a soft, indistinct visual treatment, with overlapping forms and uneven, grainy-looking colour; the visible blur makes it difficult to tell whether the imagery is photographic, painted or a combination.

ASSOCIATIONS & IMPRESSIONS / 02

What the image evokes.

The image feels like a view glimpsed through weather: purple streaks veil the pale face, and the dark tree-like band and reddish foreground seem to belong to different depths without settling into a clear scene. The face can read as a memory surfacing in the landscape, but its indistinctness keeps it from becoming a definite portrait. The reddish forms below offer a counterweight to the cool, cloudy upper half, giving the picture a tension between warmth and shadow.

The narrow strip of vertical orange text gives the cover a bookish, almost spine-like quality, while the pale frame makes the central image feel like a picture set into a darker object. There is something dreamlike in the combination: familiar suggestions of face, trees and ground are present, yet softened until they hover between recognition and abstraction. The result is quiet but unsettled, as though the scene is receding even as the lettering holds its surface in place.

Associations are subjective readings, rather than documented influences or statements of the artist’s intention.

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Lettering & observation notes
  • dafydd dafis — Near the top of the central image, slightly right of centre
  • ac adre mor bell ag erioed — Vertically along the right-hand strip, reading upwards
  • The face-like form and the dark and reddish shapes in the central image are too indistinct to identify securely.
  • The soft, grainy appearance does not make the image's underlying medium or production technique clear.
BACK TO THE SOURCE / 03

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Source year
1995
Source author field
Sain (Records) Ltd
Attribution
Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
Collection
SAIN / Wikimedia Commons
Catalogue number
SAIN SCD 2107
Source
Wikimedia Commons file page ↗
Permission evidence
Public VRT notice: 2017050910011681
Source checked
20 October 2026

Year as recorded on the source file page; it may not represent the work’s first release. File unchanged; browser preview scaled proportionally.