Solva (Fishing Village in Pembrokeshire)
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Frances Hodgkins painted Solva in 1936, a gouache on paper signed in the lower right. She visited the Welsh fishing village that October with her friend Dorothy Selby, staying at the Cambrian Inn. The village sits in a deep valley at the mouth of the river Solva in Pembrokeshire, and Hodgkins painted it as a flattened, colorful patchwork — pink and yellow houses, green hills, rocky cliffs in blue and ochre, cows grazing in the foreground, the sea curling along the bottom edge. By this point Hodgkins was in her late sixties and painting some of the strongest work of her life, her style influenced by Matisse and Dufy but entirely her own. She'd been living in Europe since 1901, had been the first woman to teach at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and was finally being recognized as one of the leading painters in Britain.