Small Works Exhibition
On display April 3rd - May 10th
Rachel Stewart
Rachel Stewart is a landscape oil painter from Llysfaen, North Wales. Rachels art education was at Bangor Art College.
Having grown up on the coast of Anglesey and Colwyn Bay, observing the weather the Irish Sea throws at it. This laid down a desire to capture it in paint.
Working in her studio from observational drawings and watercolour sketches, she paints with vigour from eye to heart to hand. Laying down oil colour using a variety of techniques.
This collection of works features Rachel’s beloved North Wales coast, her Mother's Manx heritage and trips to Italy.
Julie Davis
Julie is a painter living and working in West Wales, working in oil on canvas or board to produce traditional style paintings of still lives and portraits. She describes herself as a visual magpie - a painter of shiny things (and shiny people!) and thinks of her still lives as a 'portrait' of an object. Julie often likes to juxtapose the wild and the human-made, and is also drawn to everyday objects which are imbued with a sense of nostalgia or longing: ‘hiraeth’.
Jill Jones
Pembrokeshire artist, Jill Jones FRSA, is based in Talbenny, near Little Haven. She paints in either oils or acrylics from her purpose-built studio and gallery, West Coast Studio.
Her love of Wales is evident in her work, which alongside bold and vibrant abstracts, features huge, glorious skies, gentle moonlit scenes and wild images of the unspoilt Welsh countryside. Dramatic seas, florals and enigmatic bygone architecturealso feature in both semi-abstract and impressionist style pieces.
Jill has exhibited work during Wales week at RSA House in London (The Royal Society of Art) and over the last few years has exhibited in galleries and locations across the UK.
David Evans
David Evans is a quirky, idiosyncratic contemporary British artist with a delightfully sharp sense of childlike joy in the happenings of his creative world.
His brilliant, high-key colours and exuberantly assured oils and watercolours are crisply fresh, radically personal and utterly original. His detailed drawings speak of prodigious imagination, masterly technical ability and a unique visual language laced with a wicked humour.
David has been singularly unaffected by-passing artistic trends. His is a personal, intimate art - an art honed from decades of experimental drawing and colour work in his art studio in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
His bold techniques are certainly eccentric and chimerical. If you dig deeper there is a toughness underneath the whimsical imagery - an imagery that speaks of considered judgement and above all - a uniquely authentic vision.
