Y Gwenith Gwynnaf

Inside the image.

The square cover combines a portrait on the left with a softly focused view through a doorway on the right. A fair-skinned woman stands in the foreground, shown from about the hips upwards and facing the viewer with her arms folded. She has straight, shoulder-length light brown hair with a fringe and wears a faded blue jacket over a dark top, a fine necklace with a small pendant, and a small round pin on the jacket. Her expression is composed, with a slight smile.

Behind her is a dark, weathered wooden doorway or wall made of tall vertical boards. The portrait occupies most of the left half, while a thick, nearly black vertical post near the centre divides it from the brighter scene beyond. On the right, an open doorway frames a blurred, warm-toned exterior or passage: pale green and yellow light at the top, a dark rectangular form in the middle distance, and a narrow stone or paved path leading towards it from the bottom. The woman and the dark boards are comparatively sharp; the view beyond is indistinct, creating a clear sense of depth. A few leaves and small flowers intrude at the lower left edge.

The palette sets the cool, muted blue of the jacket and deep charcoal timber against the softly lit ochres, greens and pale stone of the right-hand view. Light falls evenly across the woman’s face, while the doorway and boards remain shadowed. White lettering sits across the upper portion of both halves: the widely spaced capitals “GWENAN GIBBARD” run from the upper left towards the centre, and beneath them, over the brighter right side, is the smaller cursive line “Y gwenith gwynnaf”. The first line uses slender, high-contrast serif letterforms; the second is flowing and italic, with a long sweeping stroke. The lettering overlays the photograph without a surrounding border. The image is photographic, with a shallow, soft focus in the background and no obvious graphic texture beyond the aged appearance of the wood.