The village of Rhiwsaeson, study, 1961

Completed during Tom and Pat's time living in Rhiwsawson, Wales, while Tom was Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council. Together Tom and Pat rebuilt a derelict School House cottage, utilising the skills Tom developed at Manchester School of Art, where he first studied Architecture before switching to the Fine Art course.

'The transformation of this cottage gave rise to a number of highly abstracted paintings and drawings...This is an early expression of his enjoyment of the ambiguous spatial effects and powerful diagonal movements implied by the drawing techniques of Axonometric and Isometric Projection' (Alan Windsor, Tom Cross: Early Paintings, 2013).

Exhibited at:

- Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Two Man show with Alan Windsor, November 1961

- Howard Roberts Gallery, June 1962

- Everyman Theatre, Cardiff, July 1963

- 'Tom Cross - Paintings of Cornwall and Wales', The University of Wales , School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, 1995

See also TC68.