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'God knows there are enough weird and wonderful things in the Welsh subconscious to tax the ingenuity of a legion of artists, and William Brown and Colin Jones with mabinogion charm entice us into the ‘Wild Chair’ to see and hear tell of ‘The Mari Lwyd Man’, ‘The Maid of Cefn Ydfa’, ‘The Lowlands’, ‘The Shipwreckers of Dunraven’ and ‘Elidyr’. In this project William Brown appears to have decided to give the illustrative pride of place to rabbits with a ear for music – let the Welsh burrow into their subconscious for an explanation! – and it is pleasurable to see, once again, traditional materials presented in a manner so engaging as to entrap us anew and leave us playing with possible meanings. In a cryptic forewarning the reader is advised not to sit in the perilous ‘Wild Chair’:

‘The pictures in your mind will be too clear, the voices in your head will stay too long….’ And that, of course, is the very reason why this ‘different’, sparky project deserves our attention.'

Hywel Teifi Edwards.