Imagine a 300-year-old, earthy-looking cottage with a bright blue door. It sits in the hills and mountains of Wales and has a mythic name – Bron Yr Aur.

Now meet Jim Stallings – a Maconite with a passion for painting, specializing in nature scenes. So in that sense, it seems almost natural for Stallings to want to paint the bucolic cottage and the surrounding countryside of Wales.

But there’s something else that connects Jim with the little English cottage. Big time rock and roll.

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of the rock band, Led Zeppelin, stayed at Bron Yr Aur in the 1970's and wrote many of the songs that appeared on the famous band’s third album. Fans of Zeppelin likely know this link to the cottage and know how Page and Plant enshrined the place in song – “The Bron Yr Aur Stomp”.

Jim Stallings paintings will be exhibited in Wales at their Museum of Modern Art. GPB's Michael Caputo visited with Stallings to uncover the full story. To hear the audio report, click on the player on the upper left corner of the story.

Watch This Video Of Stallings Creating Some Of His Works

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