Cader Idris, one of the highest mountains in southern Eryri (Snowdonia) Wales, rich in mythological and historical associations. Cader Idris has always held a strong attraction to visual artists, despite this, Cader Idris and the Artists is the first book to discuss the artistic depiction of the mountain, from the 1760s to the present day.

From Richard Wilson (1714–1782), to J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Cornelius Varley (1781–1873), John Sell Cotman (1782–1842), Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) and Bedwyr Williams’s 2016 futuristic video presentations of the mountain, Green guides the reader to view this famous mountain in many different ways, from different viewpoints and from different perspectives. 

Through artists’ works, the reader is invited to trace the changing styles and modes of visual artists from the late eighteenth century to the present day, from classicism to Romanticism, and on to modernism, abstraction and conceptualism. Green shows us how, throughout the last 300 years, the mountain has stood tall, overlooking the ever-changing world, and remained a reliable source of artistic inspiration.

Andrew Green was the Librarian of the National Library of Wales between 1998 and 2013 and is now a successful author. His Wales in 100 Objects, published by Gomer in 2018, was awarded the Non- fiction Welsh Book of the Year in 2019.

Previous publications also include Voices on the path: a History of Walking in Wales (2024) and he regularly contributes to his online publication gwallter.