The installation of drawings, “Silver Fields” and an exhibition of panels were shown at the Axa Showcase Gallery, Vyklady. Prague 25.11.17- 04.02.18. The establishment of a vitrine gallery as part of the frontage of a large hotel in the centre of Prague gave her the opportunity, challenge and freedom of making larger drawings, the selection […]
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Box Folio – Prints
MR + LM x RR=RAH 2018 (1-6) A series of Prints Edition of 6 A3 Hahnemuhle Matt Fine Art Paper 188gsm signed and editioned Robert Alwyn Hughes The series of prints are a follow on from the work titled “ooP’s” An accidental spill of paint and the mixture of Expressionist techniques. Portfolio pic Box Portfolio […]
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Mapping the Tale: image making and the narrative tradition
Quite early in my career as a painter I began examining ways to create narratives in my work. To begin with those developed from my own stories and were essentially biographical. In 2000 my father’s childhood fears and how they impacted his life and death were the source of The Mare’s Tale series of large-scale […]
The Peter Pan’s of Welsh Painting
John Selway 1938 – 2017 On October 31st 2017 John Selway passed away after a long illness. Prior to this WalesModern had prepared an article on his most recent exhibition at the Oriel Q Gallery Narberth. The article was entitled – “The Peter Pan’s of Welsh Painting” John Selway & Clive Hicks-Jenkins. “Now both in […]
Poetry & Painting
Ken Elias / Philip Gross Remaining deeply rooted in the visual arts / culture of south Wales and the Valleys in particular.” Ken Elias’s art has always been responsive to and indicative of, the wider world. It’s richness is enhanced by his early experience of cinema which, with his love of art and poetry and […]
Glyn Jones in Kerala
As a child and youth I was raised in a strictly Welsh Baptist Rhondda Valley culture, immersed in a landscape characterised by miles of snaking terraced streets and glowering mountains. Our family’s way of life was contextualised by non conformist religion and inevitably by the Second World War which began shortly after I was born. […]
Surfacing – A poem written for Ken Elias
‘returntotheABSTRACT’
During 2015, to celebrate 80yrs Robert Alwyn Hughes began work on the concept – “returntotheABSTRACT” – once again re-inventing ideas formulated by the ‘ BLACK BOX’ of the 70’s The Black Box was exhibited during the 70’s at the Grosvenor Gallery London. It was not until 2008 that the series of works entitled “BLADES”materialised. Inspired […]
Dowlais & Welsh Art
Dowlais situated above Merthyr Tydfil at the Heads of the Valleys is not generally known for its contribution to Welsh Art. Dowlais can be divided into three distinct areas – Dowlais itself, Caeharris and Dowlais Top. Dowlais is notable for it’s Ironworks and Male Voice Choirs. The artist Thomas Prydderch was from Dowlais. He worked […]
Ken Elias: Paintings
Venue: Red House, Merthyr Dates: 26/08/17 to the 15/10/17 Part of the Celebration of Welsh Contemporary Painting, in partnership with Cyfarthfa Castle and Glasbury Arts. Ken Elias is one of Wales’ leading artists. Born in 1944, into a working-class family in Glynneath, his childhood was formed during the 1950s. He attended art school in the […]
Welsh painter became Britain’s most forged artist
Like many contemporary artists battling to establish a reputation, Mandy Wilkinson had dreamed of her name appearing one day alongside the likes of Van Gogh and Joan Miro on the sales list of an international gallery with thousands of clients around the world. Unfortunately, when this happened to the 38-year-old abstract painter from Wales, who […]