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About the Brecon Beacons

The Brecon Beacons is such a lovely place to go for a walk and get exercise. it is a mountain range in the south wales. the name Brecon Beacon in the name that refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peak which lies in the south of the Brecon. the highest mountain the the Brecon is called the Pen y Fan which forms the central section of the Brecon Beacons National Park

This is the home page of the Brecon Beacons National Park

Your Bibliography: Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. 2022. Home - Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. [online] Available at: <https://www.breconbeacons.org/> [Accessed 23 May 2022].

The Impacts of Leisure and Tourism on the Brecon Beacons National Park

Your Bibliography: Beacons-npa.gov.uk. 2022. [online] Available at: <https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/the-impacts-of-leisure-and-tourism-on-the-national-park.pdf> [Accessed 11 May 2022].

Your Bibliography: BBC News. 2022. Brecon Beacons landslips rise 'a clear climate change warning'. [online] Available at: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57308780#:~:text=Reservoirs%20in%20the%20Brecon%20Beacons,Trust%20and%20Welsh%20Water%20said.> [Accessed 11 May 2022].

Your Bibliography: Beacons-npa.gov.uk. 2022. Climate Change | Brecon Beacons National Park Authority. [online] Available at: <https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/environment/climate-change/> [Accessed 11 May 2022].

These website tells you all about the environmental impact on all 14 national parks, raising awareness of when tourists visit wales to there National park. In the upland areas of the national park the most common impact is erosion caused by walkers. Walking boots cause damage to the vegetation and walkers compact the soil as the walk over the ground. It is also raising awareness for people to act fast to change their ways to try and stop global warming, also environment issues.

Craig Goch. Craig Goch is the highest upstream of the series of dams in the Elan Valley. ...
Garreg Ddu. Garreg Ddu Dam in the lower Elan Valley serves a dual role. ...
Pen y Garreg. Pen y Garreg is the third dam up the Elan Valley. ...
Claerwen. ...
Dol y Mynach.

how many Damns are there in wales?

There are six impressive dams altogether. Four follow the Elan River - Craig Goch, Pen y Garreg, Garreg Ddu, and Caban Coch and two are on the river Claerwen - the Claerwen dam and the unfinished Dol y Mynach dam.

What's the biggest damn in wales?

What is the biggest dam in Wales?

Its concrete buttress dam is the tallest concrete dam in the UK, with a height of 72 metres (236 ft) and a length of 230 metres (750 ft).
Clywedog Reservoir

Basin countries Wales

Max. length9.5 km (5.9 mi)

Surface area2.5 km2 (0.97 sq mi)

Max. depth66 m (217 ft)

ethics to consider

I have learnt about the ethics in art but looking into so research and this work has helped my to understand it more, the ethics in art is about the individual accountability to different groups that art institution serves to. the artists work should be carefully understood with the different issues and ways the primarily be understood as conflicts and cultural values. this work has helped my to think of different ethical questions for my to consider in my work.

What the different damns look like and were their located

The Elan Valley

The Elan Valley Visitor Centre is operated by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and is set in a fantastic location against a spectacular backdrop of a Victorian stone dam.
The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man made lakes created by building all these dams in the Elan and Claerwen Rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid wales. The reservoirs, which were officially built in Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provides clean drinking water for Birmingham to use in the West Midlands of England.

Afton River

The Afton Elan is a tributary of the River that flows through the wide expanse of the upland moors, this River is also knows traditionally as Elenydd in the central of great wales. Where the River is, it's in a valley called Elan Valley, this name has a meaning of "hind" or "fawn" in reference perhaps to the rushing, bounding nature of its course. The Afton River is found in wales.

Craig Goch

The Craig Goch Dam, mostly called the Top am, is a ashlar dam tin the Elan Valley of wales and creates all the upper most of the Elan Valley Reservoirs. With the construction on the dam, it began in 1897 and complete in 1904. the main primary purpose of building The Craig Goch Dam was to supply Birmingham with water. This dam is found in wales.

Pen y Garreg

Pen-y-Garreg the 'middle dam' of the Elan Valley dams, this dam dose not resemble to the other dams because part of the dams structure is not visible above the surface in normal conditions. The Pen-y-Garreg is unusual in that it has a tunnel in the centre of the tower which is lit by the apertures in the downstream side of the dam. Pen-y-Garreg is on the middle level of the Elan Valleys water stream, The construction of the Pen-y-Garreg was finished in 1904, it was built but an engineer by a man called James Mansergh.

Garreg Ddu Dam

The Garreg Ddu Dam is the lowest in the Elan Valley and it serves a dual role, this bridge has an important role of maintaining a constant supply of water to Birmingham. In the area of this dam there are plenty of other dams with fantastic views and grand structures. The Garreg Ddu Dam is a grade 2 for a viaduct built circa in the 1900s as part of the Elan Valley reservoir project.

Caban Coch Dam

The Caban Coch Dam is one of the lowest built in the sequence of the four built dams in the Elan River. This dam is the most simple and most functional in appearance of all the dams that are built in the Elan River, resembling a beautiful and natural waterfall when the reservoir is full and the dam is in full spate with water it will fall fall the wall. The Caban Coch Dam was built in 1893 and the first flood was in 1896.

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My own research/ photography in Brecon Beacons, Wales Caban Coch Dam, Elan Valley

Peter Doig research

Peter Doig's works based of landscapes and Peter's specialist pathway is abstract. when I saw his work it caught my eye by the colour and the texture. I like his work because of the colours that he uses, the observation of the landscape and the texture that he dose to make the landscape look more unique and real. some of Peters work has a warm feeling because of the colour, another reason why I like his work is that its also fine art as well as abstract. this make a wide rand for me to look at in his work, and to understand how he dose his work. Peter Doig's work
I all about paint and colour, also in one of his paintings he empathises with the colour theorem to change the colour of things that would never be that colour. In over all for his work i love the shape, colour, texture, tones, mark making and the amount of depth his work has.

psychogeography

Psychogeography is the exploration of urban environments that emphasizes interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes, and follows a loosely defined urban practice known as the dérive.

April Gornik

April Gornik is a american dreamlike painter and a drawer. She specialises in landscapes such as rivers, fields and oceans. Her work is amazing, I love her work because of the realism and the depth of her work. the was that her makes go and how smooth the lines and shapes are. I love the texture of her work as it really creates a 3D effect, also I have to say that I love the contract between the dark sky and the light behind. Her work is very well painted as of the observation and its very immersive to the piont where you wish you were there.

Auerback

Auerbach's work is very unique, I find his work very interesting the more I look at it. I love the mark making and the tons of the colours. His drawings are rough, quick and messy and I think that's the best way to do observational as then you don't over think the drawing, looking at how to do it and where everything is. Some of the work Auderbach has done, he has used vibrant colours to express colour and line work. I like his work because its fascinating with all the techniques he uses.

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer's work is amazing, I love the way he has created impasto with the paint, used lots of colour and texture. I like how messy it is with the paint and the way she improvise and enhance the observation in a way that your looking at it from laying on the floor. I like the mark making and how it stands out because it makes me feel that I'm in some abstract world and looking at landscapes in a different way in paint