Ian Phillips

BIOGRAPHY My printing process today starts, as it’s always done with a walk and a sketchbook. Following lonely trails over empty hills, through twisting forests tracks, or along cliff side paths looking for colour, pattern and texture. I’m looking for fully complete compositions out in the landscape. All I have to do is find the right place to stand, the right direction to look and start drawing. Once back in the studio the work consists of scaling up the imageRead More→

Gareth Parry

BIOGRAPHY I was born in Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1951 and left my native north Wales in the 1960s to study at the Manchester College of Art.  I quickly returned home and worked in the slate quarry for a few years before picking up the professional paint brush to work on varied work to include portraits and still life. In the early years, the majority of my work was sourced by private commissions; however, in 1980  I changed direction and choseRead More→

Gareth Lloyd-Hughes

BIOGRAPHY I was born and raised in Maentwrog, near Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1952. The village was surrounded by woodland and forest steeped in Welsh history and legend. Those early years walking in the woods and exploring the landscape have stayed with me to this day. Painting has always been part of my life and I have exhibited at various galleries and venues but after retiring from the National Library of Wales in 2010 I have been able to dedicate mostRead More→

Elizabeth Haines

BIOGRAPHY Many of my paintings are based on the Preseli, where I’ve lived for 50 years. They may evolve from studies of a particular place – my sketchbooks are full of drawings of the landscape both at home and abroad, as well as anything else which seizes my attention. My subjects evolve from things which I have seen and contemplated: sometimes I start again on top of a discarded image, some of which may be retained as a kind ofRead More→

Charlotte Baxter

BIOGRAPHY Conveying a sense of movement and life is particularly important to me and is one of the reasons I am drawn to the coast. The tides, weather and waves provides an ever changing subject matter and I enjoy the challenges of trying to capture these fleeting moments in this beautiful landscape. I work primarily with lino and woodcut as I enjoy the possibilities and the challenges I encounter whilst working with this method – most notably the unpredictable resultsRead More→

Aneurin

Aled Prichard-Jones

BIOGRAPHY I was born and raised in Bangor and worked in Pembrokeshire as a Chief Architect until retirement in 2000.  I then took up painting full time and am now an established artist working in both oils and pastel living back home in my native North Wales.  My work reflects the love and inspiration I have for the Snowdonia range having spent hours walking the mountains since I was a child. Pastels allow me to work quickly and the brightRead More→