John
Cambrian Rowland
The Visual Record of a Vanished Wales To look at the work of John Cambrian Rowland is to confront a specific, documented reality of 19th-century Welsh life. He was not a dreamer of abstract landscapes but a chronicler of the tangible. Born in Lledrod in …
A portrait built from John Cambrian Rowland's own colours
Every 3 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.