Promoting Welsh Contemporary Art

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 drawings. In many ways those were mood pieces, with the narratives … [Read more...] about Mapping the Tale: image making and the narrative tradition

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 their 70's, the eminent Welsh Artists John Selway and … [Read more...] about The Peter Pan’s of Welsh 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 his employment of memory and imagination, inform his striking … [Read more...] about Poetry & Painting

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. It was certainly not an austere environment … [Read more...] about Glyn Jones in Kerala

… [Read more...] about Surfacing – A poem written for Ken Elias