(Oriel Celf) Rhos Hendre Art Gallery

under construction

The Rhos Hendre Art Gallery showcases works with origins or roots in Waunfawr. Sometimes these connections may be slender.

1. 
   A local melody, adapted by Beethoven for his famous Ode to Joy.
2. 
   A series of well known sail rigs: lateen and ketch.
3. 
   A plan for a rail network of Wales, later adopted by Arriva Trains Cymru.
4. 
   Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace: the world's first computer programmer.
5. 
   An owl.
6. 
   Évariste Galois, a romantic French mathematician.
7. 
   A penitent local lady: a theme later adopted by El Greco.
8. 
   A local lady with an enigmatic smile: a theme later adopted by Leonardo da Vinci.
9. 
   A local lady with a pearl earring: a theme later adopted by Vermeer.
10. 
    A Celtic elephant (now rare).
11. 
    A local proposal for a telegraph transmission code, later adopted by Samuel Morse.
12. 
    Hieroglyphic representations of the names of Isis and Ra, pre-Christian inhabitants of Ceredigion who went on to become the pre-eminent Egyptian deities.