Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original painting is by the Welsh artist Roger Cecil and dates from around 1964.The watercolour and pastel mixed media work is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (our stock frame, which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind glass. The original backboard has been retained to maintain the provenance of a circa 1964 gallery label. The artwork has been isolated from the backboard using conservation barrier materials.This vintage artwork is in good condition, commensurate with its age. The paper has been conserved and remounted by a professional paper conservator on our instruction, supervision and approval.The painting is now ready to hang and display.The watercolour is signed lower left.Provenance: Previously with the Howard Roberts Gallery, Imperial Buildings, 69/74 St Mary Street, Cardiff. Roger Cecil was a reclusive painter, draughtsman and teacher. He was born in Wales and lived and worked there for the last four decades of his life, much of it in the house where he was born and brought up. Cecil produced abstract work rich in imagery, poetry and colour, which were drawn from his environment, the industrial valley towns and mountains. Prolific and obsessive, he was always a solitary artist, with no affiliations to any group or artistic movement. He worked for more than forty years, with an ever evolving and prolific creative output. His pictures capture the geology and the history of the places he knew so intimately, and the impact of man of that environment.The BBC made a television documentary on Cecil''s work called The Gentle Rebel. In the mature years of his career, and despite a well-earned reputation as one of Wales� most accomplished artists, Cecil continued to push his practice and develop his work. He remained a very private and modest man, and certainly a reluctant hero.� Big ...