{"id":229863,"date":"2019-03-07T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=229863"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:55:22","slug":"st-davids-day-portrait-created-from-daffodils-and-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/st-davids-day-portrait-created-from-daffodils-and-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"St David&#8217;s Day: Portrait created from daffodils and bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A portrait of Wales&#8217; patron saint made from 1,000 real daffodils and garden bark has been created in Pembrokeshire to mark St David&#8217;s Day, BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-47403705\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welsh artist and Britain&#8217;s Got Talent finalist, Nathan Wyburn, created the portrait within the central courtyard of St Davids Bishop&#8217;s Palace.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as part of heritage group Cadw&#8217;s Rediscover History campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The final piece took more than six hours to create and measures 11m (36ft) by 8m (26ft).<\/p>\n<p>Wyburn&#8217;s previous work includes depicting\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-34243549\">the Queen in marmite on toast<\/a>, and\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-44687924\">NHS founder Aneurin &#8220;Nye&#8221; Bevan in soil<\/a>\u00a0and white stone dust.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Express &amp; Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A portrait of Wales&#8217; patron saint made from 1,000 real daffodils and garden bark has been created in Pembrokeshire to mark St David&#8217;s Day, BBC reports. Welsh artist and Britain&#8217;s Got Talent finalist, Nathan Wyburn, created the portrait within the central courtyard of St Davids Bishop&#8217;s Palace. It comes as part of heritage group Cadw&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18612,18611],"class_list":["post-229863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-portrait","tag-st-davids-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}