Artists

Gayle Rogers PhD

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.

www.gaylerogersart.com

www.workersgallery.co.uk

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

www.workersgallery.co.uk

Dafydd Williams

Dafydd Williams was awarded the peoples choice for his self portrait at the 2020 Glynn Vivian Gallery, he is from Cwmtwrch in the Swansea Valley.

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.

www.nomorepink.com

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.

www.mikegwynhill.co.uk

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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www.galleryoffthewall.com/steven-james-wilyeo

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.

www.eurosrowlands.com

www.elysiumgallery.com/eurosrowlands

Mark Folds

     

Mark Folds, is a sculptor, who also uses performance, installation and video in his work, he is photographed here in his exhibition, Crisis (from massive to Macro) which opened in January 2020 at the Elysium Gallery/Bar in High Street, Swansea.

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

instagram.com/dylanwil1iams

www.mutualart.com/dylanwilliams

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.

www.daleetleon.com

www.elysiumgallery.com/daleetleon 

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.

grahamparkerartist@gmail.com

elysiumgallery.com/grahamparker  

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.

www.annjordan-art.co.uk

www.elysiumgallery.com/ann-jordan