Gayle Rogers works predominantly as a plein air artist, specialising in drawing. In 2014 she created the Workers Gallery in Ynyshir, in the Rhondda in the former local library building. Through the Gallery she provides a space for arts and community projects, exhibitions and live events. She is photographed here during the recent ‘ Ynyshir; 25 mile Radius’ exhibition by photographer David Hurn.
Artists
Chris Williams MA MRBS
Chris Williams’ sculptural work is influenced by his background in furniture design and making. His work explores the forms derived from complex scientific and astronomical theory. In 2018 he was commissioned by St Fagans Museum to design and make the Bardic Chair for the National Eisteddfod. His workshop is situated behind the Workers Gallery in Ynyshir
Dafydd Williams
Sue Williams
Professor Sue Williams was appointed Programme Director of the BA/MA Fine Arts at the Swansea College of Art in 2018. She has spent the last thirty years challenging the boundaries of figurative painting receiving many National and International awards and is photographed here in here in her Bute Street Studio in Cardiff.
Frances Richards – Glynn Vivian Gallery – An Artist Apart
It is very unusual for me to visit an exhibition three times, but that is what happened when I saw for the first time the work of Frances Richards who was married to Ceri. I visited their home in Edith Grove, London, in 1966. I know now what I had missed, for she was not around, and I was only too pleased to be spending time and photographing the artist I most admired.
Frances was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in 1901, studied at the Burslem School of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where she met Ceri Richards.
She became Head of Design at Camberwell and taught at Chelsea School of Art. She lived in London until her death in 1985.
Her beautiful intricately embroidered pictures were both lyrical and symbolic in their mood. Shortly before Ceri’s death she worked on a series of unique images of elongated female forms and children set in a dream-like landscape of solitude. She had many friends who were artists and poets, one remarked, “ Ceri is a major talent, but you are a minor genius”, but like Ceri she was a quiet, modest and self confident lady.
Untitled
the mother stands
the child also
the flowers with them
the same. Flowers
children and mothers;
appearing and remaining
returning and standing
waiting. What for?
it is a mystery
and will remain so.
Frances Richards
I would like to thank Mel and Rhiannon Gooding for the extracts from their lovely catalogue.
Bernard Mitchell. 2020.
Mike Hill – Wildlife artist, illustrator, wood and metal sculptor
Mike Hill studied Wild Life Illustration at Carmarthen Art College. He works from home with a studio overlooking Swansea Bay, where he regularly walks and gathers items washed ashore for his work. His studio is full of the natural history of Swansea Bay, enough to fill a museum and made a fascinating visit. Winner of the 2nd Prize in the Glynn Vivian Open 2019 with Swansea Beach Tar and Swansea Beach Plastic.
Jason Gregory and Andre Stitt
Jason Gregory was born in Tonypandy in 1974 and graduated from Cardiff School of Art with a MFA Fine Art in 2017, he now lives and works in Porthcawl.
He was joint winner of the BEEP Painting prize with Kelly Ewing in 2018.He is photographed here in the Elysium Gallery/Bar in High Street Swansea with Andre Stitt, (right).
Tom Morris
Stephen Wilyeo
Steven Wilyeo studied fine art at Aberystwyth University, School of Art, he describes his work as abstract expressionist a relationship of form and colour, a manifestation of his mind and soul laid out in paint.
He is photographed in his studio and joint exhibition with Euros Rowlands, ‘ The Stillness of Chaos’, at the Elysium Gallery studio complex in College Street, Swansea in January 2020.
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Euros Rowlands
Photographed at the joint exhibition with Steven Wilyeo, ‘The Stillness of Chaos’, at the Elysium Studio complex, January 2020.
Euros Rowlands graduated from Aberystwyth University School of Art in 1992. He has been a professional musician, teacher and now works as an artist based at Elysium Studios in College Street, Swansea.
His work is created through a combination of paint, photographs, magazine and advert cuttings, a process of memory through this visual echo.
Fran Williams
Mark Folds
Bourdon Brindille (Chris Harris)
Bourdon Brindille, sculptor opened his exhibition Breakage and Repair at the Elysium Gallery/Bar in High Street, Swansea in January 2020.
Dylan Williams
Dylan Williams, trained in Mexico and has exhibited in New York and Wales. Photographed here in his Elysium Orchard Street Studio.
“My work is made in relation to the landscape of the Afan Valley and the mountains in the area. My paintings and drawings explore the dichotomy between mans spiritual connections to the mountains and the residue of the industrial exploitation of the area. These concerns are explored through various forms of mark making, symbols and painterly values created from sketchbook studies in my studio.” – Dylan Williams
Phillip Cheater
Philip Cheater is a graphic artist with elements from society, a cornucopia of large scale optical semiotics. Photographed here in his College Street, studio, below the old Barons Night Club, where none of the spaces seem to have windows
Paul Nunn
Steph Mastoris
Steph Mastoris, is a typographic artist who uses traditional letterpress techniques. His work is concerned with the power and elegance of letter and word forms. Steph studied history at London University and is Head of the Waterfront Museum in Swansea. He is photographed here in his print room in the College Street, Elysium Studios.
Daleet Leon
Daleet Leon, was born in Israel and has lived in Swansea since 2001, where she studied for her BA and the Swansea School of Art, and in 2013 she completed her MA at the Royal College of Art. Her work involves painting, etching and drawing can be described as landscapes or dreamscapes exploring dimensions of reality and dream like visions. She is photographed here in her Mansel Street, Studio.
Graham Parker
Graham Parker was born in the Sandfields in Swansea near to Swansea Bay and the ever changing sea and shore line that has been a source for his painting for many years. His work has evolved from the dynamic realism of the storms that hit the bay, to the calm of his more recent abstract works. He is photographed here in his Mansel Street studio.
Ann Jordan
Ann Jordan works from the Mansel Street studio complex and is a Founder Director of Elysium Artists. She graduated from the Swansea School of Art with a Masters degree in Fine Art. Ann is a mixed media/textile worker, spinning, weaving, stitching and knitting her complex sculptural landscapes reflecting the traditional and contemporary with a domestic style that echo her first calling as a midwife.